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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
Woman and the Home 
From Day to Day. 
LAMENT OF THE LAY BROTHER. 
Iona. 0 Iona ! 
My days go sad and slow, 
For ’mid your island meadows 
I hear no cattle low. 
I miss the fields of Kerry, 
The green fields and the kine, 
And in my brothers’ chanting 
Is heard no voice of mine; 
Iona, O Iona ! 
Iona, O Iona ! 
My mates are glad of cheer, 
But I. the Kerry peasant 
Dwell sad and lonely here. 
I send an exile’s sighing 
Across the sundering sea; 
O would I were in Kerry, 
Or the kine were here with me! 
Iona. 0 Iona! 
The saint sleeps well, 1 trow, 
Nor dreams that one poor brother’s 
Ileartbroke for Ireland now; 
Heart broke to be a herdboy 
And watch the cattle feed, 
And call the cattle homeward 
Across the darkening mead. 
Iona. O Iona! 
All Hummer swallows stay 
About your towers; the seagulls 
To Ireland take their way. 
Ah, would, I cry with weeping, 
The seagull’s road were mine; 
To hear and see the lowing. 
The mild eyes of the kine! 
Iona, O Iona ! 
Auth'or Unknown. 
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Hot Scotch rolls are “something dif¬ 
ferent,'’ and are very good. One cup of 
oat flakes- scalded with one-half cup boil¬ 
ing milk; add to these, when they are 
cold, one-third cup molasses, one level 
tablespoonful of butter and beat for five 
minutes; thicken with white flour as for 
ordinary bread, leaving dough rather 
soft; let rise-over night and in the morn¬ 
ing mold into small rolls; let rise until 
quite light; glaze with white of egg and 
bake in moderate oven. 
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During the height of the high prices 
in milk agitation an uptown couple 
moved to a New Jersey suburb, says the 
New York Sun. Looking about for sup¬ 
plies they made arrangements with a 
neighboring farmer for milk. 1 he neigh¬ 
bor kept a Jersey cow, and it was the 
duty of the son of the former Manhattan 
couple to come for the milk each night 
and morning. After the first few quarts 
had been delivered and used the boy ap¬ 
peared one morning and told the farm¬ 
er’s wife: 
“Ma says tell you she can't use your 
milk any longer, Airs. Jones. Every 
morning when she goes to get it from 
the pantry she finds a yellow scum on it. 
She says she ain’t used to that, and so 
she don’t want any more of your milk.” 
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Among materials for tailor-made suits 
for Spring wear are a great variety of 
fine tweeds in tiny hair-line stripes and 
checks, also worsteds in very fine stripes 
of black and white so close together that 
they look gray. Pepper and salt suitings 
are to be in vogue again; they are sensi¬ 
ble and smart looking. English shepherd 
checks in black and white will be used 
again for suits. A great many of the- 
ready-made suits are in delicate pastel 
shades of Nile green, Delft blue, pearl 
gray and chamois, which are too showy 
to be practical. To wear with these suits 
there are beautiful flower toques, usually 
the round-crowned shapes we have been 
wearing during the Winter, but not ex¬ 
aggerated in size. One very pretty mod¬ 
el was made of brown roses, with some 
bronze leaves and small buds showing 
between each row of roses, a knot of 
brown finishing it at one side. Another 
was of similar style but made of pink 
roses, while a third was of green foliage 
with a large pink rose and cluster of 
buds at one side. There are also a Treat 
many fashionable shapes of heavy braid 
in burnt straw and other yellow shades, 
trimmed with black velvet, large Alsa¬ 
tian bows being a favorite trimming. 
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We get a number of inquiries, every 
season, from people who wish to sell 
preserves, jellies and canned fruit. There 
is no question that there is a sale for 
such products in towns and cities, but 
there are many difficulties in the way of 
getting in close touch with the consumer. 
Fancy groceries and women’s exchanges 
are the usual outlet for these products, 
but the exchanges must exact a fee in 
advance, which is quite an item to a 
small purse, and the grocers, who usually 
sell such things on a commission basis, 
naturally do not care to bother with 
small items, and must feel certain of the 
quality before they try to push sales. We 
have always believed that it pays best to 
cultivate the home market first. This 
sounds quite useless advice to a woman 
in a very isolated community—yet there 
is usually some town accessible where 
the first attempt can be made. We know 
several women who have been successful 
in disposing of such products in adjacent 
towns; first they do the work for ac¬ 
quaintances, and gradually the trade in¬ 
creases. One very prosperous “jam 
kitchen” adjacent to New York, which 
has grown to a large business, canvasses 
for orders early in the season, sending 
intelligent solicitors from house to house 
throughout a wide district; the goods 
are delivered later by a local grocer, who 
makes collections. It will always be 
found, in such a business, that personal 
canvassing, preferably with a few sam¬ 
ples, secures far more orders than letters 
or circulars, which the average house¬ 
keeper pays little attention to. But the 
goods must be of high quality, better 
than factory products, with the real 
“homemade” taste. There is a real op¬ 
portunity for such work in the country, 
where fresh fruits are at hand, but it is 
no get-rich-quick scheme, and we always 
urge any woman who thinks of it to try 
to create a local market first, before try¬ 
ing the competition of a great city. 
Charity Sweetheart’s Letters. 
It gave me a pang of regret when the 
two eldest boys were put into long 
trousers, for I felt that they were no 
more my little laddies, but had suddenly 
become men. But such are the inevitable 
changes time brings, and the dear moth¬ 
ers and aunties all over the land should 
take all the comfort they can with the 
little ones, for they will soon fly over 
the nest. So we are turning to the agri¬ 
cultural colleges for help in giving our 
boys the training they need, and think 
with regret of the men and women of 
our generation who have been hampered 
all their lives for want of it. The other 
day we had a demonstration of the senti¬ 
ments that exist between boys of the 
city and those of the country, when a 
group intent on wrestling, as boys will, 
gave expression to their feelings, and 
ideas of each other. Being downed in a 
tussle, one of the city-born lads- called 
the country boy a “hayseed” when Grant 
spoke up quickly saying that “hayseed 
was valuable, but there was- no market 
for the ‘city burn.’ ” If was not an ele¬ 
gant expression, rude but forcible; yet 
one could hardly blame boys who know 
their own position, and that of their 
fathers, and object to the affectation of 
superiority by boys who have only the 
recommendation that they live in the 
city. The man who lives on a salary and 
works in a narrow groove, looking 
down on the farmer when he comes to 
the country for fresh air and cheap liv¬ 
ing. would not believe that it requires 
more brains to run a farm than to sit 
over a ledger, nor does he understand 
the many-sided experiences that form 
the real education of the land holder. A 
free man, master of himself, he lives 
with Nature in many moods, enjoying 
the first fruits of the earth, and its pur¬ 
est pleasures. And when I hear our boys 
on the threshold of manhood taunted 
with being farmers, it makes me feel 
that we require colleges, other than agri¬ 
cultural, to teach boys relative values. 
We have been repairing table linen 
and sheets before the busy season comes 
on; it is a problem how to keep the edges 
of the tablecloths whole, for they wear 
out so much faster than the middle. I 
remember mother used to tack a strip of 
old linen along the side where the boys 
sat at table, and it helped to keep the 
March 12. 
tablecloth from getting worn with their 
restless movements. The fashion changes 
in these things as well as others, and I 
was glad to follow the lead of a news¬ 
paper article when making some new 
sheets, as it said that a broad hem turned 
back, and done with minute hand stitches 
after the fashion of our grandmothers, 
is in vogue. So as I was not very busy 
I spent some sunny afternoons at this 
work, and felt the perfect quiet restful, 
for though I value the sewing machine, 
it becomes at times rather nerve rack¬ 
ing, like many other useful things. 
We had a visitor lately who undertook 
to darn some cashmere socks while we 
talked one afternoon, and at the first 
washing they puckered all up. Of course 
we blamed the mender, but it proved to 
be the fault of the yarn that needed 
shrinking before being used, so now I 
hold the card over the spout of a kettle 
full of hot water, and there has not been 
any more puckering. Such little things 
make a difference in the right way of do¬ 
ing things, and housewives are beginning 
to enjoy the many devices for making 
the work in the kitchen easier. One of 
our neighbors has a fireless cooker that 
is a saving of fuel, and of heat, doing its 
work almost like a miracle. The bread 
mixers are a saving of energy in bread 
making, and egg beaters and cream 
whippers do the work in less than half 
the time by the old method. We used 
to say that all the labor-saving devices 
were for the men, but this cannot be af¬ 
firmed nowadays, for something new is 
constantly turning up to make the work 
quicker and easier. 
Some of the girls show me their hands 
as a sign of the amount of hard work 
they do, but I always laugh and tell them 
it is more carelessness than toil. ] have 
learned by experience to wash my hands 
in cold soft water, with a bit of castile 
soap, and if they show a tendency to 
roughness from undue exposure, 1 bathe 
them at night in tepid water in which is 
tied up a tiny bag of bran and oatmeal 
mixed. Rubbed till the)' feel smooth and 
rinsed with colder water they will be 
much improved in the morning. No one 
can -be blamed for taking care of the 
hands, for it adds much to our comfort 
to. have them in good condition, and 
with a delicate touch, to say nothing of 
appearances. charity sweetheart. 
Scrofula disfigures and 
causes life-long misery. 
Children become strong 
and lively when given small 
doses of 
Scott's Emulsion 
every day. The starved body 
is fed; the swollen glands 
healed, and the tainted blood 
vitalized. Good food, fresh 
air and Scott's Emulsion 
conquer scrofula and many 
other blood diseases. 
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Senator Dolliver, of Iowa, says!"” 
J^The stream of emigrants from the United States 
i Canada will continue.** 
Senator Dolliver recently paid a visit to 
Western Canada,.and says: “Thero 
is a land hunger in the hearts of 
English speaking people; this will 
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Iowa farmers to Canada, Our peo¬ 
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ment and the excellent adminis¬ 
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and they are still coming.” 
- Iowa contributed largely to the 
TO,OOO American farmers who made 
Canada their home during; 1900, Field 
crop returns alone during; year added 
to the wealth of the country close to 
# 170 , 000 , 000,00 
Grain raising, mixed farming, cattle 
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160 acres pre-emption at $8.00 per 
acre within certain areas. Schools and 
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