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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
April 9, 
Woman and the Home 
From Day to Day. 
•‘The Things that are More Excellent” 
As we wax older on this earth. 
Till many a toy that charmed us seems 
Emptied of beauty, stripped of worth, 
And mean as dust and dead as dreams— 
For gauds that perished, shows that passed, 
Some recompense the Fates have sent; 
Thrice lovelier shine the things that last, 
The tilings that are more excellent. 
Naught nobler is than to be free; 
The stars of heaven are free because 
In amplitude of liberty 
Their joy is to obey the laws. 
From servitude to freedom’s name 
Free thou thy mind in bondage pent; 
Depose the fetich, and proclaim 
The things that arc more excellent. 
To dress, to call, to dine, to break 
No canon of the social code, 
The little laws that lackeys make, 
The futile decalogue of Mode— 
IIow many a soul for these things lives. 
With pious passion, grave intent! 
While Nature, careless handed, gives 
The things that are more excellent. 
To hug the wealth ye cannot use, 
And lack the riches all may gain— 
Oh, blind and wanting wit to choose, 
Who house the chaff and burn the grain ! 
And still doth life with starry towers 
Lure to the bright, divine ascent!— 
lie yours the things ye would ; be ours 
The things that are more excellent. 
The grace of friendship—mind and heart 
Linked with their fellow heart and mind; 
The gains of science, gifts of art; 
The sense of oneness with our kind; 
The thirst to know and understand 
A large and liberal discontent— 
These are the goods in life’s rich hand, 
The things that are more excellent. 
In faultless rhythm the ocean rolls, 
A rapturous silence thrills the skies; 
And on this earth are lovely souls, 
That softly look with aidful eyes. 
Though dark, O God, Thy course and track, 
I think Thou must at least have meant 
That naught which lives should wholly lack 
The things that are more excellent. 
—William Watson. 
* 
The Department of Agriculture at 
Washington has issued a bulletin on 
‘‘Economical Use of Meat in the Home.” 
It gives some excellent instructions for 
•utilizing the cheaper cuts in palatable 
dishes, improving the flavor of meats, 
clarifying fats, etc. It will be found 
very useful, and every farm housewife 
ought to have it. 
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The little tulle or maline bows worn 
so much at the neck are prettily finished 
in the middle by a bowknot of beads 
strung on fine wire. A girl with clever 
fingers can easily make one of these 
bowknots, using any style of beads de¬ 
sired. Iridescent crystal or any spark¬ 
ling color is prettiest. Fine silver wire 
or fine bouquet wire can be used for 
stringing them. 
* 
A pretty holder for tape needles is 
made by folding a quarter of a yard of 
inch-wide ribbon through the middle, and 
overhanding the edges together so as to 
make a narrow little bag. Stuff it with 
cotton, gather it at the top, and finish 
with a rosette of baby ribbon, and a loop 
to hang it up by. Put a row of herring¬ 
bone stitch down each side, done in 
heavy white silk, and run a tape needle 
under each row of stitches. It will be 
held securely and is always at hand. 
* 
Here is a recipe for creamed peach 
pie given by “Harper’s Bazar’’: Line 
a pie plate with good pastry, lay in 
halved canned peaches, sprinkle with 
granulated sugar, fit on an upper crust 
slit in several places to allow the steam 
to escape, and bake. Into a teacupful 
of cream stir a pinch of baking soda and 
bring to the boiling point. Add sugar to 
tffste and thicken with a little cornstarch 
rubbed smooth in a tablespoonful of 
milk. Cook, stirring, until smooth and 
thick, then take from the fire, and while 
it and the baked pie are still warm lift 
the top crust and pour in the cream 
sauce. Replace the crust and let .the pie 
get cold before eating. Sprinkle the top 
of the pie with powdered sugar. 
The appearance of the first snowdrop 
is an event to us every Spring. We 
have them planted in the grass in a warm 
sunny place, and here we find the first; 
others, in the flower beds, are a little 
later. The first snowdrops this year 
were in bloom March 1, while wreaths 
of snow still lay in shady places, and we 
had 10 or 12 degrees of frost at night. 
Some years we have had them on Wash¬ 
ington’s Birthday. They will last for 
several years, and cost such a trifle that 
few need be without them. Our first 
Crocus was about 10 days later than the 
snowdrops. Later come the tulips, fol¬ 
lowed by hyacinths and ’Narcissus, and 
all the later troops of garden friends, 
but nothing else gives quite the expectant 
thrill of the first delicate, waxen blos¬ 
som of the early snowdrop. 
* 
In their efforts to simplify work, a 
good many writers, both men and wom¬ 
en. have urged that wherever possible, 
freshly laundered household linen and 
underwear should be folded away with¬ 
out ironing. This saves work, as they 
point out; the clothes are clean, and the 
ironing is a superfluity. Now science 
comes to the help of particular house¬ 
wives, and states that ironing has an 
important place as an antiseptic. The 
temperature of a hot iron may be as 
high as 266 degrees, and pressure with 
this will destroy any lurking bacilli that 
may have found lodgment in the clothes. 
Where sterilizing devices are not at 
hand surgical bandages may be ironed to 
great advantage. This is another vindi¬ 
cation of good housekeeping. Sunlight, 
fresh air, copious scrubbing and airing 
were used to make the home sanitary 
long before man began to talk of germ 
diseases, and now, after women have 
been scientifically sterilizing with their 
flatirons for generations, man comes 
panting up in the rear of the procession 
again to assure us that there really is 
some sense in it. 
Destroying Flies. 
I should be glad to know of some ef¬ 
fective fly-catcher. The fly-paper which I 
have used is not satisfactory. It usually 
holds the flies if they light upon it, but it 
does not seem to attract them. Informa¬ 
tion or satisfactory experience of others 
in this line would be welcome. F. a. 
We dislike sticky fly paper, and would 
never use it about the house; it is too 
offensive in every way. The best way 
to get rid of flies is to keep them out by 
careful screening, and the avoidance of 
all nuisances likely to draw them. The 
poisonous paper soaked in water, not 
left around all the time, but put in a 
sunny spot during part of the day, the 
rest of the room being darkened, will 
destroy a good many if it is fresh and 
strong, and if there is no other food or 
drink exposed for them. But the main 
thing is the prevention of the nuisance. 
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Over sixty-five 
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