6913 
May 21, 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
Woman and the Home 
From Day to Day. 
THE SECOND PLACE. 
Unto my loved ones have I given all: 
The tireless service of my willing hands, 
The strength of swift feet running to their 
call, 
Each pulse of this fond heart whose love 
commands 
The busy brain into their use; each grace, 
Each gift, the flower and fruit of life. 
To me 
They give, with gracious hearts and ten¬ 
derly 
The second place. 
Such joy as my glad service may dispense 
They spend to make some brighter life 
more blest; 
The grief that comes, despite my frail de¬ 
fense. 
They seek to soothe upon a dearer breast. 
Love veils Ills deepest glories from my face; 
I dimly dream how fair the light may be 
Beyond the shade, where I hold, longingly. 
The second place. 
And yet 'tis sweet to know that though I 
make 
No soul's supremcst bliss, no life shall lie 
Ruined and desolated for my sake, 
Nor any heart be broken when I die. 
And sw.eet it is to see my little space 
Grow wider hour by hour; and gratefully 
I thank the tender fate that granteth me 
The second place. 
—Susan Marr Spalding. 
* 
A lace yoke offers some difficulties in 
button-hole making, and yet it is often 
necessary to fasten in this way. It is 
an advantage to sew a strip of firm 
Brussels net inside the hem or facing; 
this does not show perceptibly, but is 
quite firm, and the button holes are 
much stronger when worked through 
it. Another plan is to baste a double 
strip of fine lawn firmly down the 
wrong side of hem. The button holes 
are cut through lace and lawn and 
worked firmly; then the lawn is cut 
away close to the work, on the under¬ 
side, and the button hole is thus re¬ 
enforced, without showing any trace of 
the fabric used for this purpose, 
* 
The New York Sun tells how a ped¬ 
estrian on Fourth avenue late one even¬ 
ing recently congratulated himself on 
the strength of his nerves when he saw 
turn in from a side street what looked 
like four large automobiles in the dark¬ 
ness. Attached to the rear of each 
was a red lantern. There were circum¬ 
stances about the procession that puz¬ 
zled the spectator,. Why should the 
four motors go abreast and why should 
they proceed slowly? By quickening 
his steps .the optical delusion was ex¬ 
plained. The four slow moving bodies 
were elephants from the circus taking 
their exercise at the only possible time, 
and the red lanterns were attached to 
their tails to prevent reckless drivers 
from running into them. 
* 
One of the problems often coming 
before both public and private charities 
is that of keeping a widow’s family to¬ 
gether, when she is left without means 
of support. We realize now that the 
home, and not the institution is the 
place to bring up a child; also that 
children whose mother must leave them 
for hours every day, while she earns 
their bread, do not have a fair chance. 
We are told that in Australia the State 
keeps the family together. When a poor 
but respectable woman is left a widow 
with a large family of young children 
whom she cannot provide for. the Gov¬ 
ernment, of course, has to assume the 
support of the children. Instead of pay¬ 
ing their board in an institution, or 
boarding them out in the families of 
strangers, it boards them with the 
mother, paying her a certain sum a 
month for each. In this way the family 
is kept together. 
* 
For cooking some of the cheaper cuts 
of meat, try brown stew with dumplings. 
Cut two pounds of round beef into 
cubes of one inch; put half a cupful of 
chopped suet into a saucepan; when the 
fat is rendered out remove the crack¬ 
lings, throw the meat into the hot fat, 
shake it over a hot fire until thoroughly 
browned; then draw it to one side; add 
two rounding tablespoonfuls of flour, 
mix and then add one quart of stock 
or water; stir until boiling; add one 
level teaspoonful of salt, a slice of onion, 
a saltspoon of pepper; cover and cook 
slowly for one hour and a half. Ten 
minutes before the stew is done put 
half a pint of flour into a bowl, add 
half a teaspoonful of salt and a teaspoon¬ 
ful of baking powder; sift and add 
sufficient milk just to moisten. Drop 
by spoonfuls on top of the stew; cover 
and cook for ten minutes, without lift¬ 
ing the lid. Dish the dumplings around 
the edge of the platter, fill the stew 
into the center and serve. 
* 
Our friend “Charity Sweetheart” re¬ 
fers sometimes to the demands made 
upon the maiden aunt for work and 
care and love, while, in spite of it all, 
she must ever expect a secondary place 
in the household. Perhaps the little 
poem printed above is the expression 
of just such feeling. But we think in 
most cases the industry and affection of 
an unmarried relative who devotes her¬ 
self unselfishly to the family is warmly 
appreciated. In St. Paul’s churchyard, 
New York, among the weatherworn 
tombstones that face the roar and hurry 
of Broadway, is one inscribed “In mem¬ 
ory of a beloved aunt.” It is sixty 
years and more since that gravestone 
was erected—the person whose affection 
is there commemorated is unknown to 
the busy workers who hurry by—yet we 
believe few people read the inscription 
without thinking of some unselfish affec¬ 
tion that has gladdened their own lives 
and thus, through the pious memorial 
to one good woman, they render some 
increase of gratitude and affection to 
others. There is doubtless a story be¬ 
hind that brief inscription; each of us 
may weave some fancy concerning it, 
but however slight may be our knowl¬ 
edge of that one “beloved aunt,” it will 
help to remind us that there are many 
others in the world today whose loving 
toil should be recognized in gratitude 
while they are yet with us. 
Chicken Oil for Rusty Ironware. 
A friend who takes great pride in her 
collection of iron cooking utensils which 
have seen service in the days of our 
forefathers, assures me that there is 
nothing equal to chicken oil for killing 
rust on iron. Many of the utensils 
which she showed me had been obtained 
for little or nothing because their rusty 
condition made them seem valueless to 
their owners. My friend’s method is to 
wash the rusty article in hot strong 
soapsuds and dry thoroughly with a 
cloth, then she saturates it with chicken 
oil and wraps it in newspapers, to be 
set one side for days, weeks or months, 
until she thinks the oil has had time 
to do its work, when she again washes 
it in hot soapsuds and scours it with 
a little bath brick. If necessary she 
wipes dry and saturates it with oil and 
sets it by for a few weeks longer, re¬ 
peating the washing and oiling as be¬ 
fore. The time it takes depends on how 
deeply the rust has eaten in. “Give me 
time, chicken oil and bath brick, and I 
will undertake to make almost any kettle 
or skillet look smooth and respectable,” 
she said as she laughingly held up a for¬ 
lorn looking Scotch kettle which she 
proposed to put in good condition. 
I would suggest that Mrs. C. W. D., 
page 526, use her kettle for frying 
doughnuts, or heating soap fat, or any¬ 
thing which will insure heating a good 
quantity of fat to smoking heat in it. 
After turning out the fat wash thorough¬ 
ly with hot soapsuds, rinse with hot 
clear water, and dry with a cloth. We 
had an experience similar to hers at one 
time, and found the above treatment 
effectual. Martha’s niece. 
The Rural Patterns. 
A pretty tucked waist is shown in 
No. 6616. The waist is made with fronts 
and back. The sleeves are in one piece 
each and are finished with openings 
and straight cuffs. The neck is finished 
with a neck-band over which can be 
adjusted the high turned-over collar or 
any fancy one. The jabot is made in 
one piece, plaited on indicated lines. 
32 to 42 bust. 
The quantity of material required for 
the medium size is SJ4 yards 21 or 24, 
3^2 yards 27 or yards 44 inches 
wide with 1 yard of edging for the 
jabot. The pattern 6616 is cut in sizes 
for a 32, 34, 36, 38, 40 and 42-inch bust 
measure; price 10 cents. 
An attractive plaited skirt is shown 
in No. 6613, which can be made with 
or without the yoke effect. The skirt 
is cut in thirteen gores. There is a plait ; 
laid at the back edge of each gore and ! 
the closing is made invisibly at the 
6633 Thirteen Gored Skirt, 
22 to 34 waist. 
back. When the yoke is used the skirt 
is cut off and joined to its lower edge. 
The quantity of material required for 
the medium size is 8->4 yards 24 or 
27, or 5 yards 44 or 52 inches wide. 
The width of skirt at lower edge is 4 
yards. The pattern 6633 is cut in sizes 
for a 22, 24, 26, 28, 30, 32 and 34-inch 
waist measure; price 10 cents. 
Would’st slmpe a noble life? Then cast 
No backward glances toward the past; 
And though somewhat be lost and gone, 
Yet do thou act as one new born. 
Each day will bring its proper task. 
What each day needs, that shalt thou ask. 
Give others’ work just share of praise, 
Not of thine own the merits raise. 
Beware no fellow man thou hate; 
And so in God’s hand leave thy fate. 
—’Translated from Goethe. 
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What Governor Deneen.of Illinois, Says About It: 
Governor Deneeu, of Illinois, owns a section 
of land iu Saskatchewan, Canada. He 
has said in an interview: 
“As an American I am delighted 
to sec the remarkable progress of 
Western Canada. Our people are 
locking across the boundary in 
thousands, and I have not yet met 
one who admitted he had made a 
mistake. They are all doing well. 
There is scarcely a community in 
the Middle or Western States that 
has not a representative in Mani¬ 
toba, Saskatchewan or Alberta.' 
t25 MillionBushelsof Wheat in1909 
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Free Homesteads of 160 acres, 
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