1034 
Woman and the Home 
From Day to Day. 
PROCRASTINATION. 
If Fortune with a smiling face 
Strew roses on our way. 
When shall we stoop to pick them up? 
To-day, my dear, to-day. 
Rut should she frown with face of care, 
And talk of coming sorrow, 
When shall we grieve, if grieve we must? 
To-morrow, dear, to-morrow. 
If those wlio've wronged us own their fault, 
And kindly pity pray, 
When shall we listen, and forgive? 
To-day, my dear, to-day. 
But if stern Justice urge rebuke, 
And warmth from memory borrow. 
When shall we chide, if chide we dare? 
To-morrow, dear, to-morrow! 
If those to whom we owe a debt 
Are harmed unless we pay. 
When shall we struggle to be just? 
To-day, my dear, to-day! 
But if our debtor fail our hope, 
And plead his ruin thorough, 
When shall we weigh his breach of faith ? 
To-morrow, dear, to-morrow ! 
For noble deeds and stainless joys 
The minutes will not stay; 
We’ve always time to welcome them. 
To-day, my dear, to-day. 
But care, resentment, angry words. 
And unavailing sorrow, 
Come far too soon if they appear 
To-morrow, dear, to-morrow ! 
—Charles Mackay. 
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Danish horseradish sauce is good to 
serve with boiled beef. Add one-half 
cupful of grated horseradish to one cup¬ 
ful of breadcrumbs, one cupful milk, one 
tablespoon fill of sugar and a piece of 
butter the size of an egg. Let the sauce 
come to a boil, stirring continually, and 
serve hot. 
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“Guest towels” are small towels, 
about 15x24 inches, supposed to be used 
but once in drying the hands. In a 
nice huckaback with damask border and 
scalloped edge they cost 70 cents a pair. 
A hand-embroidered initial added will 
make a pair of these little towels a 
pretty gift for a girl who is collecting 
for a linen chest. Fine huckaback bought 
by the yard, finished with scalloped or 
hemstitched edge with a band of Walla- 
chian embroidery and an initial, would 
be both handsome and inexpensive. 
* 
Readymade flounces for petticoats cost 
from 50 cents to $3.25, the cheaper being 
of black percaline and sateen, the more 
expensive of silk, black and colored. 
These flounces are knife-pleated, shirred 
or accordion pleated, and will make a 
partly worn petticoat as good as new, 
for the flounce always wears out first, 
and it is not always possible for the 
home seamstress to put so much work 
in a flounce. An underskirt of alpaca 
with a silk flounce is very nice, and 
wears better than where the entire skirt 
is of silk. 
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Because lie lived in the country, says 
the New York Sun, Uncle Jerry was 
supposed to be ignorant of city wiles, 
therefore his nieces planned to entertain 
him the first evening he was in New 
York by recounting the losses they had 
suffered through iniquitous weights and 
measures. Before they found a chance 
to introduce the topic Uncle Jerry asked 
if they remembered Zeke Hawley, who 
had worked for him the early part of the 
Summer. They remembered Zeke. What 
about him? 
“I had to fire him,” said Uncle Jerry. 
“What for?” the girls asked. 
“Graft,” said he. “I offered him two 
cents a pint for all the potato bugs he 
could catch during the season, and I’ll 
be blamed if the rascal didn’t ring in 25 
extra pints on me by catching the bugs 
in a measure with a false bottom. Evcf 
hear anything to beat that?” 
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ODD-looking tapestry bands are seen 
among the trimmings used on hats, 
dresses and waists, some of them being 
very expensive. Some, however, quite 
as effective as the more costly trim¬ 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
mings, owe their origin to upholstery 
fabrics, with the addition of a little 
hand work. We have heard of an elab¬ 
orate evening wrap trimmed with wide 
bands of what appeared to be a cash- 
mere shawl, this being very fashionable 
at present. In reality the fabric was a 
handsome piece of colored curtain mad¬ 
ras, turned wrong side out, so as to 
show the loose threads. Remnants of 
silk and wool tapestry having a pattern 
that may be cut into medallions are 
sometimes used to give a rich effect, the 
medallions being couched around with 
metal thread, the whole being connected 
with a little hand embroidery in similar 
colors. This gives the effect of an ex¬ 
pensive trimming in solid hand work. 
Setting One’s Stores In Order. 
The excellent suggestions by R. M. B. 
(page 593) upon how to put one’s house 
in order and dispose of useless articles, 
must have carried something like a re¬ 
proof to many besides myself. We who 
can see possibilities in nearly every out¬ 
dated and half-worn thing are so prone 
to let boxes, bags and all sorts of make¬ 
overs accumulate till perhaps a moving 
day would be the best thing that could 
happen to us. But the day of a removal 
or of any enforced disposal of belong¬ 
ings is never the time to do the work 
well. When those days overtake people 
they always have to throw away a good 
many things which might, in leisure 
days, have been made exceedingly useful 
at home or as gifts to poorer neighbors. 
As a general thing garments given to 
poor people must be first put in wearing 
order to serve their best as benefactions. 
Of the wisdom of using even the best 
of half-worn shirt waists as bed quilt 
linings, I have decided doubt. A bed 
covering is for long usage and means 
many stitches, therefore the newest of 
material is none too good. Once in my 
young enthusiasm 1 pieced a comfortable 
out of triangles cut from dress waists 
left behind when woolen gowns had been 
remodeled. There were a good many 
of these about the house where girls had 
had school dresses made out of grown¬ 
up’s cast-off cashmeres, mohairs and 
plaids. I cut the triangles about six 
inches on each of their three sides and 
alternated the light and dark colors. It 
made a soft, light comfortable, for we 
lined it with more woolen dresses cut in 
strips, but, alas, it perished all too soon. 
The rugs mentioned by R. M. B. must 
all be well worth the labor expended, for 
such rugs lie smoothly and look and 
wear well. I am saving in the attic all 
the faded red tablecloths (we use them 
for between-meal spreads upon the 
kitchen table) and mean some day to 
have of them a rug with clear red stripes 
across each end. For the red I intend 
using dyed flannels which will take a 
strong color, and if a little clouded with 
varying shades the stripe will be all the 
prettier. In the Arts and Crafts rooms 
in Boston I once saw rugs woven of dull 
blue calico or percale, probably new cloth 
stripped up and exactly like in effect to 
R. M. B.’s made from old blue dresses. 
Blue and white striped bedticking makes 
also a pretty rug if a clear blue band fin¬ 
ishes each end. I know of one such 
made with little labor, for the old ticks 
were stitched together on the sewing 
machine, end to end, and then cut, leav¬ 
ing almost no sewing of rags to be done. 
Old letters one cannot do better than 
burn, but I should be slow about dis¬ 
posing of old books, for sometimes such 
have surprising values because of being 
out of print or rare editions. Think of 
the astonishing prices even old postage 
stamps can bring. My mother when a 
girl spent a Winter or two near Brattle- 
boro, Vt. If she couid have preserved 
some of those first postage stamps made 
by a citizen of that place it would have 
been better than any money in savings 
banks. 
The great objection to accumulating 
stores not at present useful is that they 
breed moths and disorder. Certainly if 
things are kept in good condition there 
always comes a time when that particu¬ 
lar article is exactly what we want to 
use or to give away. If woolen pieces 
are pressed with a hot iron while damp 
and then tied up in neat newspaper pack¬ 
ages labeled on the outside, they take up 
little room and may be kept safely till 
the hour for their reappearance, no mat¬ 
ter how long delayed. Did you read Mrs. 
Mary Wilkins Freeman’s story, “The 
Winning Lady,” and not resolve that 
your next out-dated suit should retire in 
tissue papers till fashion again wheeled 
its way? Pieces of silk or velvet become 
rubbish only when they are crumpled 
and stuffed helter-skelter into boxes and 
drawers. It helps amazingly to have cer¬ 
tain boxes devoted, one to velvet ribbons, 
one to woolen braids, another to small 
pieces of black silks and satins, and yet 
others to white lace and to black. If 
buttons are ripped from a garment be 
sure to pin all securely in an old enve¬ 
lope, or else string them on a stout 
thread and knot the ends together. Even 
white pearl buttons if kept strung and 
tied will tell in a moment if you have 
enough of that sort for the garment in 
hand. A small bag filled with tapes and 
braids suitable for hanging loops is a 
convenience to be kept near the sewing 
corner, for loops help greatly toward 
keeping garments shapely. Pour boiling 
water over any pieces of woolen braid 
ripped from garments, shake them about 
to rinse out dust or moth eggs, and when 
dry they will be smooth and somewhere 
will prove useful as a bit of flat facing, 
or as loops on holder bindings. Of 
course it is nice to use up in patchwork 
the nice pieces that accumulate, but do 
not be discouraged if the work cannot be 
done to-day. If put away properly their 
time will come and some hand will find 
pleasure in the pretty task. 
PRUDENCE PRIMROSE. 
Quilting by Machine. 
Will some of your readers give full 
and explicit directions for quilting quilts 
on an ordinary sewing machine? I have 
seen it done, but do not know how to go 
and do likewise. G. M. 
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How To Have Cheery 
Evenings At Home 
When the chores are done and supper 
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