THE KUKAL NEW-YORKER 
March 10, 
358] 
Woman and the Home 
From Day to Day. 
THE BEES’ STORE-HOUSE. 
Life is barren of sweets, you cry? 
Every hour has a flower, say I! 
Here a thistle and there a rose, 
And the bees’ store-house overflows. 
Hear how the bee-hive bears me out: 
Never an acre round about. 
Furrowed of man, to grace the bees! 
But the roads are lined with linden trees, 
And the thick buckwheat is yearly sown 
And comes to its own ; 
The raspberry's ivory bloom is spread, 
And the balm wine-red 
In unpruned gardens: Over the hedge 
Wild weeds bloom at the pasture’s edge— 
Mullein and groundsel: All of these. 
Little and great, are loved of bees. 
Life is barren of sweets, you cry? 
Every hour has a flower, say I! 
Here a nettle and there a rose. 
And the bees' store-house overflows. 
—Dora Read Goodale in the Springfield 
Republican. 
* 
New Spring shoes are a little rounder 
in the toe than last season, usually with 
a short vamp, and the prevailing Cuban 
heel. The low shoes take the form of 
pumps and sailor ties, or low Oxfords 
with one, two or three eyelets. Buckles 
are to be worn a good deal. Dress shoes 
are of patent leather or black buck¬ 
skin. white buckskin or canvas for wear 
with white dresses, and the usual tan 
leather, dull calf and glazed kid for 
regular wear. The pumps for street 
wear usually have an ankle strap and a 
firm welted sole. The very cheap white 
canvas shoes we consider a poor in¬ 
vestment, because they do not keep their 
shape, and are often poorly cut, and 
then they really look worse than a cheap 
shoe of other material. City pavements 
are much harder on shoes than country 
earth, and a pair of canvas shoes for 
afternoon wear will usually keep in 
good order for two seasons, with an 
occasional setting up of the heels if the 
wearer runs them over. 
* 
We have had a good many reports 
of the damage caused by railroad fires, 
and the reckless scattering of locomo¬ 
tive live cinders. Here is a case that 
will arouse feminine indignation. A 
young woman went out from Ne,w York 
to dine with a friend in a suburban 
town. After getting off the train she 
walked along the side of the railway 
for a short distance, while a heavy 
freight train puffed up the grade. Ar¬ 
rived at her friend’s, she removed hat 
and wrap. One of the family remarked 
casually that she seemed to smell some¬ 
thing singeing like burnt feathers, but 
the odor seemed imaginary, and they sat 
down to dinner. During the meal the 
vague smell of singeing became a pro¬ 
nounced burning odor, and on going 
into the adjoining room the visitor’s 
hat was found blazing merrily. The hat 
was entirely destroyed, but the fire was 
prevented from spreading. All the evi¬ 
dence seemed to prove that a burning 
coal from the locomotive of the freight 
train had dropped into the hat trimming, 
and thus started the fire. We all sym¬ 
pathize with the man who loses a field 
of grain or hay as the result of a rail¬ 
road fire, but what can equal the grief 
of a woman who thus loses a cherished 
hat ? 
* 
Newspaper reports state that Miss 
Ruth Ingham, of Kansas, has been test¬ 
ing Alfalfa as human food in a variety 
of ways. She has tested it in bread, 
cake, and made into a beverage like tea. 
The Alfalfa meal is, of course, high in 
nutritive value, but it does not seem to 
please the human palate, the hay taste 
being found unpleasant; furthermore, 
the fact that the bread turns a dark 
green in color makes it repugnant. This 
objection could probably be removed by 
bleaching, but as litigation is now in 
progress over the matter of bleached 
flour, one would hardly expect the pro¬ 
cess to be permitted in the case of Al¬ 
falfa meal. Cake made with the Al¬ 
falfa flour was reported to be very good, 
as spices and fruit took away the hay 
taste. We do not doubt that Alfalfa 
would be nutritious for human consump¬ 
tion, if we could only learn to like it, 
but we confess that we would rather 
take our Alfalfa in the form of eggs, 
milk and butter. The cow and the hen 
do not need spices and caraway seeds 
to disguise the.flavor of Alfalfa, and 
they will transmute this valuable forage 
into the most available forms of nutri- 
6583 Misses' Shirt Waist, 
14 and 16 years. 
ment for humans. The Kansas Alfalfa 
cook deserves commendation for her ex¬ 
perimental efforts, but we haven’t the 
least doubt that she can prepare every¬ 
day food products in a manner that will 
put Alfalfa biscuits entirely in the shade. 
* 
We hear much about African wander¬ 
ings nowadays, which includes a good 
deal of killing; as another side of such 
wanderings we may refer to Sister Bes¬ 
sie Smythe, the pioneer trained nurse 
of African wilds, who is now returning 
to England after 30 years of frontier 
service. She was a young Irish girl 
when she began her career in Kimber- 
!e'\ and one of her experiences was the 
charge of the lazarette at Pretoria dur¬ 
ing a serious epidemic of smallpox. She 
?570 Misses’ Five Gored Skirt, 
14 and 16 years. 
was on the fighting line through the 
Boer War, and afterwards had charge 
of the government hospital at Mom- 
bassa; then, unarmed and attended only 
by native carriers, she trekked through 
Rhodesia, across a corner of the Congo 
Free State, and along Lake Tanganyika 
to the Victoria Nyanza, which she 
crossed in an Arab dhow. Everywhere 
she helped the sick and suffering, re¬ 
ceiving gratitude in return. After this 
she visited the Gold Coast, “the white 
man's grave,” Liberia and San Thome. 
After these years of toil and danger this 
good woman is described as possessing 
a sweet and winning personality which 
makes everyone her friend, nor does she 
appear to think she has done anything 
out of the way. It was just duty, that 
was all—and the same sense of duty 
that supported her through the Afri¬ 
can wilds supports many a heroine of 
home life, who is giving herself to 
others, just as truly as Sister Bessie 
Smythe did. 
Cooking Soy Beans. 
Is there any way to cook Soy beans so 
that they will be tender and fit to eat? 
We tried to boil some and couldn’t get them 
done alter boiling 10 hours. Jibs. .t. e. o. 
We have had no experience in this 
line. Who can give us some informa¬ 
tion? We believe the Soy beans are 
used for food in China and Japan, and 
also in making the fermented sauce 
known as soy, which is used freely in 
their cooking_ 
The Rural Patterns. 
A pretty and girlish waist is shown in 
No. 0583. The waist is made with front 
and gathered into bands or made long 
with openings finished with over-laps 
and straight cuffs, in regulation style. 
Either the Dutch collar or neck-band 
can be joined to the neck edge. The 
quantity of material for the sixteen- 
year size is 3% yards 21 or 24, 2-)4 yards 
32 or 2 yards 44 inches wide. The pat¬ 
tern 0583 is cut in sizes for misses of 
14 and 10 years of age; price, 10 cents. 
The plain gored skirt is one that is 
always needed. This model is designed 
for young girls and will be found ap¬ 
propriate for all the skirt.ing materials 
that are adapted to so simple a style. 
The skirt is made in five gores and the 
fulness at the back is laid in inverted 
plaits. Beneath these plaits the closing 
is made. The quantity of material re¬ 
quired for the sixteen-year size is 5J4 
yards 44 or 3Lt yards 52 inches wide if 
material has figure or nap; yards 
27. 4j4 yards 32, 2^8 yards 44 or 2J4 
yards 52 inches wide if material has 
neither figure nor nap. The pattern 6570 
is cut in sizes for girls of 14 and 16 
years of age; price, 10 cents. 
50 MILLION 
cod fish, more or less, are caught 
each year on the coast of Norway, 
the livers of which are made into 
Cod Liver Oil. 
The best oil is made from the fish 
caught at the Lofoten Islands. 
Scott & Bowne use only that oil 
in making their celebrated 
Scott's Emulsion 
and when skillfully combined with 
Hypophosphites of Lime and Soda 
they produce a medicinal food un¬ 
equalled in the world for building 
up the body. 
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Send 10c.. nnrae of paper and this ad. for our 
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CULTURE. We send it for six months on trial tv 
twenty-five cents, and also send free a tU-page book 
on bees and our bee supply catalog to all who name tlii- 
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Stock Up with 
Fresh Soda Crackers 
Instead of getting a large pack¬ 
age of loose soda crackers that 
soon grow stale—stock your 
pantry with small tight pack¬ 
ages containing 
Uneeda 
Biscuit 
Fresh soda crackers every time 
you eat—the last as fresh as the 
first—because they are placed 
in moisture proof packages the 
moment they leave the oven. 
(Never Sold in Bulk) 
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and back and includes one-piece sleeves 
that can be cut in three-quarter length 
Time to Invoice. 
