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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
August 27, 
Woman and the Home 
From Day to Day. 
A WISH. 
Would I were lying in a field of clover— 
Of clover soft and cool and fresh and 
sweet. 
With dusky clouds in deep skies hanging 
over 
And scented silence at my head and feet. 
Just for one hour to slip the leash of worry 
lu eager haste from thought’s impatient 
neck, 
And watch its coursing in its heedless 
hurry, 
Disdaining duty’s call or wisdom’s beck. 
Ah ! it were sweet, where clover clumps are 
meeting 
And daisies hiding, so to lie and rest; 
No sound except my own heart’s sturdy 
beating, 
Rocking itself to sleep within my breast, 
Just to lie there filled with the deeper 
breathing 
ness, but Summer breezes make it a 
necessity, if one would remain tidy when 
driving. The net secures neatness, with¬ 
out the discomforts of the veil. 
* 
A favorite recommendation with the 
manufacturers of some proprietary rem¬ 
edies is the statement that their medi¬ 
cine is entirely vegetable. “It can’t hurt 
you to take it anyway,” say well-mean¬ 
ing people, “for there’s nothing but 
vegetable compounds in it.” That sounds 
very well until one recollects that some 
of the most dangerous drugs in the 
pharmacopoeia are of vegetable origin— 
that the stately purple-flowered fox¬ 
glove gives us digitalis, and the showy 
monk’s-hood supplies aconite; an in¬ 
nocent-looking little berry is a source 
of strychnine, and one of our garden 
favorites is responsible for all the miser- 
to a quart of fruit; boil until thick and 
can in the usual way. 
Grape Jam.—Wash the grapes and 
squeeze or pinch the pulp from the skins. 
Boil the pulp until it separates from the 
seed and rub it through a sieve; then 
add the skins to the pulp and boil with 
equal weight of sugar 15 minutes; put 
into small jars or tumblers and .in a day 
or two cover with pap*?r, which will 
hermetically seal. 
Grape Nectar.—Wash and pulp grapes, 
cooking skins and pulp in separate ves¬ 
sels. When very tender pour all into a 
flannel bag and strain over night. Add 
two pounds of sugar to each gallon of 
juice, boil five minutes, bottle and seal. 
It keeps better after being opened than 
ordinary grape juice, and is good either 
hot or cold. 
That comes of listening to a wild bird’s ies that come from opium in its many 
song, forms. There are weeds growing in 
Our souls require at times this full un- , „ , , , 
sheathing; swamp and woodland that may produce 
All swords will rust in scabbard kept death in agonizing form, in spite of be¬ 
ing “purely vegetable.” Do not be mis¬ 
led by the idea that a vegetable com¬ 
pound must necessarily be harmless. 
There is much virtue in vegetable com¬ 
pounds—indeed, the doctors are not 
above borrowing wisdom from old-time 
Ah, laugh ! if laugh you will at my crude herbalists, but an unknown remedy needs 
speech ’ some more reassuring recommendation 
than the mere statement that it is .“purely 
vegetable.” 
too long. 
And I am tired—so tired of rigid duty; 
So tired of all my tired hands find to do; 
I yearn, I faint for some of life’s free 
beauty, 
Its looser beads with no straight string 
run through. 
But women sometimes die of such a 
greed—• 
Die for the small joys held beyond their 
reach, 
And the assurance they have all they 
need. 
—Credit Lost. 
* 
Grape Recipes. 
Grape Marmalade.—Choose ripe grapes 
and pick over, wash, drain and remove 
It is a good idea to dip hooks for the stems. Separate the pulp from the 
kitchen, pantry and bathroom in white 
enamel paint; then there is no risk of 
rust. It is only in their absence that we 
realize the frequent convenience of well- 
placed hooks in these positions. 
* 
Eggless pancakes are very light, made 
as follows: One and one-half cup of 
milk, one teaspoonful salt, one teaspoon¬ 
ful sugar, 2R> teaspoonfuls baking pow¬ 
der, one cup of flour. Sift sugar, salt 
and baking powder in with the flour, and 
beat the batter well to aerate it. Be 
sure the fat in the frying pan is smok¬ 
ing hot when you put batter in. 
* 
Modern pedagogy teaches children to 
skins. Put the pulp into a preserving 
kettle, heat it to boiling and cook slowly 
until it separates from the seeds, then 
rub through a fine sieve. Add the skins 
to the pulp, measure and put back into 
the preserving kettle with an equal 
measure of sugar. Cook slowly until 
thick, stirring frequently to prevent 
burning. When done put into jars or 
glasses and cover with melted paraffine. 
Green Grape Jelly.—If the grapes are 
gathered in midsummer before they 
have begun to turn the jelly will be a 
clear green; later, when the first bloom 
makes its appearance, a beautiful pink- 
jelly can be obtained from this fruit. 
Cleanse the fruit, strip from the stem 
read without the drudgery of learning and put in a stone jar set m an outer 
the alphabet first. It seems quite won- vesse i of boiling water. When they be- 
derful to one taught in the old-fashioned gin to soften stir with a woo den 'spoon 
way to hear the juveniles spelling and until they are t h oroilghIy crushed 
reading, yet quite unacquainted with the strain , without squeezing. What is left 
letters in their sequence. It seems, how- in the bag may be squee zed in another 
ever, that this system is not without its vessel and made into a separa te jelly 
disadvantages. One large corporation in for cake and puddings . Return to the 
Jsew York, which employs a great many fire (after meaS uring) and boil twenty 
clerks for filing, complained that many minutes . To every cup of juice add a 
of these modern young people were use* cup of heated sugar> Let the jelly come 
less in tins work as owing to their ig- t0 a hard boiI> then turn into sterilized 
norance of the alphabet, they could not g i asS es 
be depended on to file in alphabetical or¬ 
der, and endless complications resulted 
from their carelessness. It would seem 
that there are still some virtues in old- 
fashioned education. 
* 
Ripe Grape Jelly.—Mash the grapes in 
the kettle, put them over the fire and 
cook until thoroughly done, drain 
through a sieve, but do not press 
through; to each pint of juice allow one 
There is much virtue in an invisible p0Und of Sugar; boil rapidl >' for 15 min ’ 
net, as a means of keeping the hair tidy. 1,tes ’ ac j^ tbe su & ai anc l boil rapidly 
We do not mean that every hair should * bree m > n utes longer, 
be sleeked down closely, and then cov- Venison Jelly.—Put into preserving 
ered with the net, because that is us- kettle one peck wild grapes washed and 
ually unbecoming. But the hair should picked from stem, one quart vinegar, 
be arranged loosely and prettily in the one-fourth cup each of whole cloves and 
accustomed mode, and the net then stick cinnamon. Cook till grapes are 
drawn over it, beginning at the front, s °ft- Drain in jelly bag, boil liquid 20 
any looseness at the back being caught minutes, add six pounds of sugar 
under the barrette. The wearer must (heated), and boil five minutes. Turn 
be careful not to bring the edge of the mto glasses. 
net down on to the forehead, so as to Canned Grapes.—This is a simple 
make a hard line, which is very unbe- method, inexpensive, excellent for keep¬ 
coming. A few invisible hairpins keep ing, and it provides excellent filling for 
it in place. The special value of the net grape pies in the Winter. Squeeze the 
is felt in driving or automobiling, when pulp from the skin. Boil the pulp gently 
the hair is likely to blow about, in spite until the seeds begin to loosen, in one 
of a face veil, and nothing makes a kettle. Have the skins boiling hard in 
woman look quite as untidy as a lot of a little water in another kettle, as they 
stringy elf-locks hanging about face and are tough. When the pulp seems tender 
neck. In excessively warm and humid put it through the sieve; add the skins, 
weather a face veil is most uncomfort- when tender, with the water they boil 
able, and quickly loses its crisp fresh- in. Add a large coffee cupful of sugar 
How often it is difficult to be wisely 
charitable—to do good without multiply¬ 
ing the sources of evil. To give alms is 
nothing unless you give thought also. It 
is written, not “Blessed is he that feedeth 
the poor,” but “Blessed is he that con- 
sidereth the poor.” A little thought and 
a little kindness are often worth more 
than a great deal of money.—Ruskin. 
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