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THE RUKA.L N E W-YORKER 
Woman and the Home 
From Day to Day. 
THE BUD. 
l)patli in my barren •soul 
And death in the elm-tree bare; 
Then sunset flamed on the hole, 
And I saw the red bud there. 
“Nothing I slay, but Death : 
Nor take, hut I give again” : 
God spake to me under 11 is breath, 
Arid He did not heal my pain; 
But in my wintry grief: 
And straight on my frozen sorrow, 
There quicken'd the pulse- Belief; 
There crimsoned the hud—To-morrow. 
In the Book of the Lord, 
The sky, and the earth, and sea, 
I kiss'd tile verse of His word, 
The bud on a Winter tree. 
Mary Brotlierton (1820-1910). 
We heard recently of a flat-dweller in 
New York whose maid, every washday, 
took the wet clothes up to the roof in an 
old baby carriage, wheeling this from 
place to place as she hung the clothes 
out. This seemed to us a practical 
labor-saving device; why should not the 
housewife have a platform on wheels on 
which to rest her clothes basket, instead 
of tugging at the heavy mass when it is 
full of wet clothes? The basket could 
thus be wheeled right out to the drying 
ground, and wheeled along the line as 
the clothes were hung out. Under ordin¬ 
ary circumstances the person hanging out 
the clothes must retrace her steps re¬ 
peatedly, to take more clothes out of the 
basket, or tug to move the basket along. 
A clothes-basket truck would prove its 
value every washday. 
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Among proprietary articles which have 
been prosecuted by the U. S. Dpeart- 
ment of Agriculture under the food and 
drugs act, we find one highly recom¬ 
mended hair tonic, which, according to 
the maker, would “eliminate any scalp 
disease, dandruff, itch, headache, and 
the falling of the hair.” Analysis proved 
that it contained 98.5 per cent methyl 
alcohol (wood alcohol), and the maker 
was fined for misbranding. A “remedy 
for hay fever and catarrh” contained 
99.95 per cent cocaine hydrochloride, and 
as this was not stated on the label the 
manufacturer was fined $100. Cocaine 
hydrochloride internally, and wood al¬ 
cohol externally, do not recommend 
themselves to our ideas, and they show 
very plainly the danger in the so-called 
“remedies” sent out by unscrupulous 
quacks. 
tion: Cook slowly two cups of hominy 
grits and one teaspoon of salt in three 
pints of water for three hours. Oil a 
mould, and line it with a thick layer of 
the hot cereal, packing it down firmly. 
In the centre put the following mixture; 
Moisten one cup of fine whole-wheat 
bread crumbs with two cups of hot milk, 
then add one-half cup each of chopped 
hickory and pecan-nut meats, two table¬ 
spoons of melted butter, one teaspoon 
each of onion juice, mixed herbs, and 
salt, one-fourth teaspoon of pepper, and 
two beaten eggs. Cover the top smooth¬ 
ly with a layer of the hominy, and place 
the mould in a basin of hot water; bake 
in a moderate oven for thirty minutes. 
Turn out and serve with nut sauce. To 
make the sauce, melt one tablespoon of 
butter, add one tablespoon of browned 
flour, and one and one-half cups of milk; 
season with salt and pepper an one tea¬ 
spoon of lemon juice, then add one- 
fourth cup of finely crushed nut meats. 
The following note from the Osborne 
(Kan.) Farmer is quite suggestive: 
Mary Shiftless, 
Old Bill Shiftless, 
lady. Next year 
lias no bad luck. 
the oldest daughter of 
is getting to he a young 
she will graduate if she 
The other day Old Bill 
called Mary to him and said : “Now, iny 
girl, when you graduate I am going to buy 
you a nice gold watch with your name en¬ 
graved on it. 1 have helped you all I 
could the past three years, but times have 
been close and I couldn't do all I wanted 
to.” Mrs. Shiftless said nothing. The fact 
is, Mary has been kept in school by Mrs. 
Shiftless. The good woman sewed at night 
and washed in the day time to get money 
to buy Mary's books. She denied herself 
everything she possibly could in order to 
have Mary look respectable. For years Old 
Bill has grumbled every time Mary had 
to have a new book. Bill has knocked 
on the teachers and roared about the ex¬ 
pense. He claims the public school system 
is a graft and that graduates amount to 
nothing. Mo has often told Mrs. Shiftless 
she ought to keep Mary out of school to 
help her about the house. Bill will never 
buy Mary the watch. All he will do will 
be to stand around and blow about what 
a smart girl Mary js and how she would 
have been a good deal ahead of where she 
is now if the teachers hadn't been against 
her. 
A Southern Quest for Pumpkin Pie. 
I wish to know how to make a good 
“Yankee” pumpkin pie; also to know if it 
is best to use tin* pumpkins when young 
and tender, or to wait till they mature in 
the Fall after frost. o. h. b. 
It is believed that the oldest rose bush 
(or tree, rather) in cultivation is that 
on the wall of the cathedral at llildes- 
heim, Germany. It covers the wall to a 
height of 25 feet, and is 20 inches thick 
at the root. Church records of the 
eleventh century mention expenses in¬ 
curred in caring for this rose, so it has 
been flourishing for eight hundred years 
and more. Another famous rose, which 
is but an infant compared with that at 
Hildesheim, is one in the Marine Gar¬ 
dens at Toulon, France, which covers a 
15-foot wall for a space of 80 feet. It 
is a Banksia, a very elegant rose that 
does not succeed in our climate, and is 
said to bear 50,000 blooms at a time. 
We do not know of any individual rose 
bushes in this country which compare 
with famous European specimens in size, 
but the taste for roses is certainly grow¬ 
ing here, and the next generation will 
have reason to thank us for our plant- 
In preparing a vegetarian diet one may 
either make it frankly no-meat, or, on 
the other hand, an imitation of the meat 
diet by greater elaboration in cooking. 
There is a wide difference between sim¬ 
ple fruits, nuts and cereals, and the style 
of cooking that imitates meat. The fol¬ 
lowing recipe for mock chicken loaf, 
printed in Harper’s Bazar, is very good, 
though it will need care in the prepara- 
“Yankee” pumpkin pie varies some¬ 
what according to taste or means at 
hand; sometimes it is a rich spicy cus¬ 
tard merely flavored with pumpkin— 
sometimes a frugal filling is made with¬ 
out eggs, stiffened with flour, and 
sweetened with molasses. But in one 
point all cooks agree; the ripe, fully 
matured pumpkin is used in Fall or 
Winter, not the young, immature fruit. 
The ripe pumpkins are often canned, so 
they may be used at other seasons. 
Cut up the pumpkin, removing seeds 
and peel, boil in very little water until 
soft, drain dry, mash through sieve. 
Mix in order given l]/ 2 cup stewed and 
sifted pumpkin, one cup of boiling milk, 
half a cup of sugar, half a teaspoonful 
of salt, one saltspoonful of cinnamon, 
and one egg beaten slightly. Line a 
plate with paste, put on a rim, and fill 
with the mixture. Bake like a custard 
pie for about 30 minutes. The above is 
a New England recipe. A richer pie is 
made as follows: While the stewed and 
sifted pumpkin is still hot, stir in a piece 
of butter the size of a walnut and a 
saltspoonful of salt for each half pint of 
pumpkin. Put a pint of the pumpkin 
into a large bowl, add to it one pint of 
milk, a half teaspoonful of ground mace, 
the same of ground cinnamon, and one 
teaspoonful of ground ginger; mix all 
together, and sweeten to taste. Beat 
four eggs until light, then add them to 
the mixture, which will make three or 
four pies. We like the flavoring of 
mixed spices better than the cinnamon 
alone. 
More Reclaimed Rubbish. 
1 f you have not plenty of patent 
drinking fountains for the poultry yards 
take a tin tomato can and drive a nail 
through its side near the top, twist a 
piece of wire about the nail, or through 
the hole it made, and bend it to form a 
hook. You can then hang the can on to 
the wire netting of the yard, low enough 
for hens to drink from but out of the 
way of their scratching and not to be 
overturned or fouled by their feet. The 
tomato can size answers where a few 
hens are confined, but for a flock of hens 
several cans will be needed, or the same 
principle can be applied to a larger re¬ 
ceptacle. Malleable wire can be had 
wound on little spools, and will be 
found convenient mending material for 
many uses, but, as everyone knows, a 
woman can do an astonishing number 
of things with a hairpin. 
Inside the soldered end of tin cans is 
sometimes found a circular piece of tin. 
Make a hole with a nail in the centre 
of one of these and you have something 
which can be used as a washer to 
strengthen and make snug the tea 
kettle cover or kettle lids on which you 
were going to replace the missing knob 
with one of the adjustable ones which 
screw on with a little nut. 
A half-pound baking powder can 
makes a biscuit cutter of exactly the 
size I like. A few holes punched in the 
bottom allows the air to pass out and 
prevents suction. 
To make a soap holder for use in the 
dishpan I prepare an empty condensed 
milk can in the same way, but use it 
right end up and set on a saucer when 
not in use. This utilizes the last crumbs 
of soap as well as does the “boughten” 
soap-shaker, and wastes no drip into 
the sink. Put into the dishpan and pour 
the hot water through it and there is 
soon a good suds and no soap free to 
cling to the dishes. 
There is probably no better way to 
bake tart shells than on the bottom of 
inverted tin cans. Condensed milk tins 
are of a good size, and are bright and 
unlacquered when the paper is soaked 
off. I lave the circular pieces of pastry 
large enough to extend down the sides 
of the can an inch or so, and prick holes 
with a fork to prevent its puffing up 
while baking. A remnant of pastry left 
from pie-making can be filled with fresh 
or canned fruit after baking, heaped 
with a little meringue or whipped 
cream, and come forth as a dainty little 
pie. Children delight in such flummery, 
and they will make sufficient dessert 
for a day when the family is small. As 
the shells keep a number of days in the 
refrigerator, there is likely to be an oc¬ 
casion when the cook is glad she did not 
throw her bits of pastry into the chick¬ 
en’s pail. 
1 know of a steep, gravel hillside 
back of a pleasant old house which has 
been made beautiful by the help of much 
patient burying of rubbish. The part 
which old wash boilers, tubs and boxes 
had to do with making this unpromising 
soil to blossom out in roses, lilies and 
other hardy plants and flowering shrubs 
was managed by excavating the coarse 
gravel which let all fertility leach away, 
and sinking something which would 
hold better earth. Of course the boxes 
or boilers had holes for drainage at the 
bottom, and were sunk even with the 
top of the soii and completely out of 
sight. As a cow was kept on the place, 
there was plenty of wherewithal for 
setting the plants in soil well enriched, 
and plenty of top-dressing to be applied 
in the Fall. One would go many miles 
to find a prettier outlook than has the 
back door of that hundred-year-old 
dwelling house. The upward slant be¬ 
gins but a few feet from the old stone 
steps, and Sweet Williams, larkspurs, 
cornflowers and Asters are apt to make 
Summer beauty in the nearby clumps, 
while roses, hollyhocks and the taller 
growing perennials carry the eye-feast 
of color and fragrant grace up to the 
crest of the little hill. Was not turning 
an unfruitful and inconveniently-near 
gravel bank into a unique and charm¬ 
ing landscape a sort of large utilizing of 
rubbish? Anyone can make a smooth 
bit of fertile ground beautiful, but it 
comes close to genius when out of poor 
material loveliness is made to blossom 
forth. And furthermore, your easy soil 
and situation is apt to result in some¬ 
thing very like the forty other gardens 
nearest it, but where difficulties have 
been bent to the designer’s uses is likely 
to be the charm of freshness and indi¬ 
viduality. 
July 16, 
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