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Woman and the Home 
From Day to Day, 
KNIGHTS AND KING. 
The knights rode up with gifts for the king, 
And one was a jeweled sword, 
And one was a suit of golden mail, 
And one was a golden Word. 
He buckled the shining armor on, 
And he girt the sword at his side; 
But he flung at his feet the golden Word, 
And trampled it in his pride. 
The armor is pierced with many spears, 
And the sword is breaking in twain ; 
But the Word has risen in storm and fire 
To vanquish aud to reign. 
—William Watson. 
THE KURAb NEW-YORKES 
Among Summer fancy work are hand 
bags of natural linen with brass frame 
and chain handle, stamped for embroid¬ 
ery with colored floss. The bag stamped 
for working costs 50 cents. The em¬ 
broidery is done in several colors, each 
figure outlined in black, and the effect 
is very good. 
* 
The embroidered flounce of a white 
petticoat sometimes wears and becomes 
ragged at the edge while the rest of 
the skirt is still good. It is a good plan 
to cut off the worn portion, which may 
be an inch or less deep, turn a narrow 
hem, and then sew on firm Torchon lace 
of the right depth. The effect is very 
good, and the skirt is rejuvenated for 
future wear. 
* 
Oatmeal fritters are very good, and 
will utilize left-over cereal. They call 
for one cup of cold cooked oatmeal, one 
egg, two-thirds of a cup of sweet milk, 
one cup of flour, one teaspoonful baking 
powder, two tablespoons sugar, pinch of 
salt. Beat all well together, then drop 
by spoonfuls into a hot, well-greased 
frying-pan. Turn when brown, and 
brown other side. Serve very hot. 
* 
Barley is ordinarily used only in 
soup, but we like it very much as a 
cereal. Wash one-half cup of pearl bar¬ 
ley and place in the double boiler with 
3J^2 cups of hot water. Cook slowly 
until all the water is absorbed, usually 
five or six hours. We think it would 
cook nicely in the fireless cooker. Eat 
as a cereal, or serve as a dessert with 
cream or a sweetened sauce. The cooked 
barley can be made into a pudding by 
adding milk to make very soft, sugar 
and a bit of butter, and baking until 
brown. 
* 
What is called the Children’s Act in 
Great Britain is a far-reaching piece of 
legislation designed to protect all chil¬ 
dren from danger, privation or unneces¬ 
sary suffering. An unusual case under 
this act came before a London magis¬ 
trate recently, according to newspaper 
reports. A nursemaid was summoned 
by her former employer for neglecting a 
baby in her charge. The mother, after 
admonishing the maid to be especially 
careful of the baby, had gone out to 
dinner, intending to go to the theatre 
afterwards. She returned unexpectedlv, 
and found the baby all alone, and the 
nurse nowhere to be found. She ap¬ 
plied for a summons against the maid, 
not from vindictive feeling, but as a 
matter of principle, and the magistrate 
fined the girl $10. 
* 
The Blind Association of New York 
has started a cooking school for the 
blind. The Association endeavors to 
make the home life of the blind as nor¬ 
mal as possible, and the teaching is very 
much the same as that given to pupils 
who possess their sight. The blind pu¬ 
pils possess to an extraordinary degree 
the sense of smell, and a delicacy of 
touch that enables them to recognize 
things (for example, the check marks in 
toweling) in a way impossible to persons 
with less sensitive fingers. They are 
said to depend largely on the sense of 
smell to tell when their baking is ready 
to come out of the oven, while weigh¬ 
ing and measuring depends of course on 
touch. All of the blind pupils either 
keep house for themselves or help in 
the regular work of the family. The 
cooking lessons increase their efficiency, 
and also enable them to find pleasure in 
their work. Many of them are self- 
supporting. We are often surprised by 
the cheerful courage with which blind 
people bear their great affliction. There 
is surely every reason why those gifted 
with sight should aid in increasing their 
happiness and efficiency by education. 
Charity Sweetheart’s Letter. 
It has been a beautiful time of straw¬ 
berry delights, for they give a charm to 
the season that no other fruit possesses. 
The air was filled with the fragrance of 
the wild strawberries in the orchard and 
old meadow, and the berries were to be 
had for the seeking. After the work 
was done up I enjoyed going out and 
picking enough for tea, though they are 
so small that some impatient people can’t 
be bothered with them. It does cut into 
the time, but I always feel it as well 
spent as if I sat on the verandah and 
worked at embroidery. Then the value 
of having the fruit fresh picked for 
canning compensates for the labor of 
fruit picking at any time, and we ap¬ 
preciate wild strawberry jam in the dull 
Winter days, it seems bottled sunshine. 
It is true that the work of preparing and 
putting up adds to housekeeping cares, 
but we think home is the richer for these 
seeming luxuries that. we enjoy. We 
have been a good deal exercised by the 
high price of meat, and although far¬ 
mers have their own poultry and are 
able to be pretty independent, we do 
seem to find it hard to go in unaccus¬ 
tomed ways. Brother was used to plenty 
of pork, but there was such a big price 
offered in Winter that he sold out and 
left us rather short. So one day this 
Spring I made a dish of macaroni and 
canned tomatoes that set him wonder¬ 
ing, and now he is quite willing to make 
a dinner of it twice a week. First I 
made a sauce by putting a bit of butter 
the size of an egg into a saucepan; 
when it was at the boiling point I added 
a minced onion, two sprigs of chopped 
parsley and a little pepper and salt. 
After it had cooked six or seven min¬ 
utes a tablespoonful of flour was mixed 
and put in and boiled up for a few min¬ 
utes and then half a pint of canned to¬ 
matoes that have been heated and 
strained through a colander. In an¬ 
other pot half a pound of macaroni was 
boiled for 20 minutes in well salted 
water; then drained and placed in a 
dish with alternate layers of the sauce. 
It was put in the oven for five minutes 
and the top layer will of course be sauce, 
that will soak through and give it a 
very nice flavor, and be an agreeable 
change with our vegetables. 
Nowadays people laugh at old-fash¬ 
ioned remedies but this Spring I was 
astonished at the good that boneset tea 
did “Minty.” She had a bad cough, 
and old Nurse Telfer came in one day 
saying she heard Minty was under the 
weather, so she took a 10-cent package 
of dried boneset out of her hand bag 
and steeped it in three half pints of 
water, leaving it for about 20 minutes 
on the back of the stove, then she sweet¬ 
ened it with white sugar. Just to please 
her, Minty took it regularly after it was 
bottled, and anyway the cough got bet¬ 
ter and the boneset gets the credit of it. 
We tried some vegetable marrows last 
year and I made a discovery that I 
mean to profit by this season. Being 
short of vegetables one morning I took 
off some young marrows, not much 
larger than a lemon. They were cut up 
and placed in a steamer, and when soft 
were beaten up with a lump of butter 
and a little salt. They made a very 
nice dish and it was so superior to the 
mature fruit that I decided it was be¬ 
cause they remain too long on the plant 
that this vegetable is so often full of 
seeds and flavorless. After that I tried 
them cooked like the eggplants, slicing 
crossways, each slice the thickness of 
half a dollar or allowing a little more, 
and fry in lard or butter. Most vege¬ 
tables are better when steamed or 
cooked in a double boiler, the latter be¬ 
ing best for cooking green peas, putting 
in a bit of fresh spearmint and keeping 
in the steam as much as possible. We 
have been paying more attention to food 
preparation lately and reading up what 
is best suited to our needs. The pota¬ 
toes have been so very good that in 
Winter we used them extensively, till 
one and another developed stomach 
trouble, and consulting the doctor he 
attributed it to the fermentation caused 
by too much potato. So I gave }ip using 
them and the trouble ceased. At the 
same time he advised the free use of 
buttermilk as a rich nutritious drink 
that can be taken to advantage in sick¬ 
ness or in health. It is considered the 
best nitrogenous article one can pro¬ 
cure, and has the advantage of cheap¬ 
ness, being very beneficial in cases of 
fever. 
We had quite a troublesome time with 
sweet peas this Spring, for no sooner 
were they out of the ground than the 
birds ate the tops from them, and we 
had to resow them. By this time I had 
read in a paper that soot scattered over 
the ground just as they are coming 
through will prevent these depredations, 
so it was sprinkled over them one morn¬ 
ing while the dew was on them, and 
there has not been any trouble since. 
I he boys made fun of this second at¬ 
tempt, saying it was locking the door 
after the horse was stolen, but I console 
myself finding that some neighbors’ peas 
sown early, and not destroyed, are not 
so very much ahead of mine, and I keep 
the hoe going to help them along. 
CHARITY SWEETHEART. 
Juno 18 , 
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