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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
October 15, 
Woman and the Home 
From Day to Day. 
A NAME IN THE SAND. 
Alone I walked the ocean strand : 
A pearly shell was in my hand; 
1 stooped and wrote upon the said 
My name—the year—the day. 
As onward from the snot I nassed, 
One lingering look behind T case; 
A wave came rolling high and fa3t, 
And washed my lines away. 
And so, iiietkouglit, ’twill shortly be 
With every mark on earth from me, 
A wave of dark oblivion's sea 
Will '•weep across the place 
Where I have trod the sandv shore 
Of time, and been, to be no more, 
Of me—my day—the name I bore, 
To leave nor track nor trace. 
And yet with Him who counts the sands. 
And holds the waters in Ilis hands, 
I know a lasting record stands 
Inscribed against my name, 
Of all tills mortal part has wrought, 
Of all this thinking soul lias tnou 0 ht, 
And from these fleeting moments caught 
For glory or for shame. 
—Hannah Flagg Gould. 
* 
We see plenty of jokes about the “hob¬ 
ble” skirt, an absurdity that no one has 
taken seriously, and which is already 
dead as far as real fashion is concerned. 
We were recently amused to see dis¬ 
played, in a large New York store, 
“trotter” or walking garters, which were 
offered for wear with hobble skirts. They 
were circular garters of fancy silk elastic 
with silver ornaments, the pair being con¬ 
nected by a short length of elastic, so 
that in walking too long a stride would 
not be taken. We do not know whether 
any living woman really wears such 
things, but it is consoling to think that 
at least the hobble skirt is no more ab¬ 
surd than the “pullback” of the early 
eighties, when the correct skirt outline 
was that of a mermaid’s fishy tail. One 
of George Du Maurier’s famous pictures 
in the London “Punch” showed a group 
of ladies leaning against easels, because 
their fashionable pullback skirts would 
not permit them to sit on chairs. It is 
consoling to remember that great and 
noble heroines wore the ugly and un¬ 
gainly crinoline, that women of force and 
power wore pullbacks, and even now 
there may be some famous woman of the 
future, as yet unknown, who is strug¬ 
gling with a hobble skirt! 
The fact that it is never too late to 
learn is exemplified in the case of Mrs. 
Winship, of Racine, Wis., who entered 
her second year at the Ohio State Uni¬ 
versity close upon her eightv-first birth¬ 
day. She is taking a four-year course in 
literature, language and science, and is 
said to be specializing in Shakespeare. 
Mrs. Winship is a close student, well 
read, and of unusual mental power. 
Many a woman who is denied means and 
leisure to study as she is doing, will find 
that she can add new zest to life by pur¬ 
suing some special branch of knowledge. 
Some of the most aimless and discon¬ 
tented years of a woman's life are often 
those of middle age, when the children 
are grown up and dispersed, .the hard 
work of building up a home is past, and, 
perhaps, widowhood leaves a vacancy 
which other interests can only fill in 
part. If a woman possesses some leisure, 
fair health and an active mind she can 
make this Autumn of. life a time to take 
up new intellectual interests, or to go 
back to old ones long set aside by 
crowding duties. As an example of a 
new interest in advanced life let us take 
the case of Mrs. Delaney, famous in 
English society in the eighteenth cen¬ 
tury. She was a cultivated and accom¬ 
plished gentlewoman, a leader in society, 
always busy in some handiwork as well 
as in intellectual pursuits. At the age 
of 74 she began to cut out paper flowers, 
pasting them upon a black background. 
She cut out the flowers without any guide 
except the natural flowers before her, 
merely following the waving lines with 
her eye, yet the work was done with such 
extraordinary fidelity that no painting 
excels it in delicacy. As the work pro¬ 
ceeded it became more and more absorb¬ 
ing to Mrs. Delaney; she secured colored 
papers from China and Turkey, and also 
obtained spoiled papers showing strange 
variations of color from wallpaper manu¬ 
facturers. So truthful were her scissors 
that the great botanist, Sir Joseph Banks, 
declared these were the only representa¬ 
tions of flowers he had ever seen from 
which he could accurately describe a 
plant botanically. Mrs. Delaney died in 
1788, aged 88. Nearly a thousand speci¬ 
mens of her paper flowers are preserved 
in the Print Room of the British 
Museum; no one has ever equaled her 
work since, which remains not only a 
beautiful monument to a unique talent, 
but a constant encouragement to all 
women who fear that youth is the only 
time to develop hand or brain. 
Peanut Butter 
I noticed in your recipe for peanut but¬ 
ter you ask for something that will keep 
longer than cream. We make ours just 
as your recipe on page 8S4, only we use 
vegetable oil in place of cream, and we 
never had any become rancid, and have 
kept it 30 days. The vegetable oil we get 
from almost any mail order house. 
V. D. M. 
M. J. S. on page SS4 wants to know 
about making peanut butter. I will give 
our way, and will say that we have used 
considerable commercial peanut butter 
and like it; but we like our own make 
better as given below, after repeated ex¬ 
periments with the article. We buy the 
prepared nuts, that is, the prepared pits, 
called salted peanuts, for about nine 
cents per pound in 10-pound boxes. We 
rub the pits in a strong cloth to take the 
hull off and then put them through the 
meat grinder twice, first with the finest 
meat grinder knife, and then with the 
nut grinder knife or burr. Then we salt 
to taste and moisten with olive oil—pre¬ 
ferably with the California olive oil. For 
farmers who have plenty of fresh butter, 
it might answer as well as the olive oil, 
but would not keep sweet so long. We 
use the olive oil generously in the butter 
as we like it and think it healthful and 
very nutritious, and a fine blending in all 
vegetable salads. We eat almost no 
meats but generously of nuts and olive 
oil and coarsely prepared cereals. 
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