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December 3, 
THE RURAb NEW-YORKER 
Woman and the Home a up ™ :£ se ,Z 
women are doing in economic fields.' 
From Day to Day. 
CHRISTMAS GIFTS. 
What shall I give to Thee, O Lord? 
The Kings that came of old 
Laid softly on Thy cradle rude 
Their myrrh, and gems, and gold. 
Thy martyr's gave their hearts’ warm blood; 
Their ashes strewed Thy way; 
They spurned their lives as dreams and 
dust, 
To speed Thy coming day. 
We offer Thee nor life nor death; 
Our gifts to man we give; 
Dear Lord, on this Thy day of birth, 
Oh, what dost Thou receive? 
Thou knowest of sweet and precious things, 
My store is scant and small; 
Yet, wort Thou here in want and woe, 
Lord, I would give Th'ee all! 
Show me Thyself in flesh once more; 
Thy feast I long to spread ; 
To bring the water for Thy feet, 
The ointment for Thy head. 
There came a voice from heavenly heights: 
“Unclose thine eyes and see. 
Gifts to the least of those I love 
Thou givest unto Me.’’ 
—Rose Terry Cooke. 
Why not have a large apron of oil 
cloth or rubber sheeting to wear when 
washing or doing other sloppy work? It 
would add to comfort, keep the clothes 
dry underneath, and could be washed off 
when soiled. 
* 
A good many women wear very thin 
stockings with their low shoes, gauze 
lisle where their means do not run to 
silk. They wear out very quickly, but 
there are two simple things that add 
greatly to the life of a thin stocking. Al¬ 
ways stitch tape on the sides of the top 
where the clip of the supporter comes, 
and make smoothly-fitting toe caps of 
thin lawn to be worn with each thin 
pair. The toe cap saves an amazing 
amount of wear. Very thin stockings 
are always the better for being darned, 
if any holes show, before being washed, 
and this is really necessary with silk 
stockings. 
The handsomest new sofa pillows are 
not square, the oblong being just now 
the more stylish shape. Favorite sizes 
are one yard long and 20 inches wide, 
or smaller ones 20x12 inches. A great 
many are made of metal tapestries, or 
trimmed with metal fringes and galoon, 
gold, silver, copper and steel. These 
materials are expensive, and make a 
costly pillow. The metal tapestries are 
combined with velvet and satin, a pillow 
being divided into panels or sections, 
the joins covered with galoon. Of 
course no one would ever dare to rest 
upon one of these pillows, even if the 
metal did not make it too stiff to be in¬ 
viting. There are printed tapestry 
squares from 10 to 22 inches in size, 
often copies of famous French tapestry, 
and these, made up with gimp, are good 
imitations of the expensive materials. 
Suede leather with metal decorations is 
used for handsome pillows. 
* 
Great Britain makes use of women 
inspectors in all sorts of positions, some 
being appointed by local or county boards 
and some by the Home Office of the 
National Government. A woman prison 
inspector, Dr. Mary Gordon, has recently 
received a government appointment. 
There are poor-law inspectors, sanitary, 
factory and school inspectors, and in¬ 
spectors of boarded-out children under 
the law known as the infant life protec¬ 
tion act, which is very far-reaching. 
There are women inspectors of employ¬ 
ment agencies, who have power to ex¬ 
amine the lodgings supplied women out 
of work, and to insist upon cleanliness 
and proper accommodations, also to in¬ 
spect all stores where women are em¬ 
ployed, and to see that the law compelling 
shops to provide a certain number of 
seats is complied with. A recent ap¬ 
pointment is of women doctors as in¬ 
spectors under the midwives act, which 
exacts special training for women taking 
That question on page 107G about 
feeding the hired men will amuse many 
farm housekeepers. The idea of laying 
out a hired man’s rations, as if he were 
farm live stock instead of a human be¬ 
ing, would not work well in this coun¬ 
try. Yet there is real use in studying 
the amount of food material required by 
persons of varying ages or occupations, 
even though one does not intend to re¬ 
organize the household management upon 
the lines of an army commissary ser¬ 
vice. Conditions are naturally different 
in a city, where all the food is bought, 
from the farm, where the land produces 
so much of the family living. Hence 
the farm housekeeper has to consider, in 
her purchases, the food elements that 
will supplement what she already has. 
It is well worth while to consider the 
nutritive ratio. Most people have an 
idea that the proteids or muscle-makers, 
which we get largely from meat, cheese, 
eggs, etc. (the most expensive food), are 
the only food of any account to a person 
engaged in hard manual labor. Science, 
however, tells us that the carbohydrates 
(starches and sugars, found mainly in 
vegetables,) are the chief source of mus¬ 
cular energy. Prof. Atwater’s daily 
dietary for a man at hard work con¬ 
sisted of 150 grams proteids, 150 grams 
fat, and 500 grams carbohydrates. Of 
course not all the proteids are supplied 
by animal food, but if one-third of the 
amount were provided in this way it 
would mean about eight ounces of ac¬ 
tual meat, eight eggs, or about five ounces 
of cheese daily. Proteids are body build¬ 
ers and restorers, and food experts are 
agreed that they give vigor and stamina, 
but many would be surprised to find how 
liberal a diet can be provided with but a 
moderate allowance of meat. The time 
has now come when American house¬ 
wives have reason to consider the food 
supply almost as carefully as their for¬ 
eign sisters, and everything that will aid 
in improving the nutritive ratio while 
lessening the cost is worth while. If 
this sounds overdrawn, think of the city 
women on small incomes who pay 40 
cents a peck for potatoes, 40 cents a 
pound for bacon, and 50 cents a dozen 
for eggs. 
straight edge. As the quilt accumulates 
under the machine arm, roll it up tightly 
and pin together. If the quilt is very 
heavy it is sometimes best to withdraw 
from the machine and begin and stitch 
from the other side through to the cen¬ 
ter again. This does away with the large 
roll under the machine arm. 
MRS. R. L. VAN NICE. 
Quilting by Machine. 
I have made my quilts and mattress 
pads on the sewing machine for many 
years and find it a most satisfactory way. 
I make the mattress pads or protectors 
of unbleached muslin. It is a more sub¬ 
stantial way of doing, as the cotton does 
not strip apart and become lumpy after 
the necessary repeated washings. To 
prepare the work, first the quilt lining 
is pinned tightly to a carpet on the floor, 
and the cotton spread upon that. I then 
spread the top on over the cotton and 
pin smoothly to the lining. I now go all 
around the edges either with a coarse 
needle and strong thread and baste the 
edges together, or sometimes only pin to¬ 
gether closely. I then spread some news¬ 
papers on so I can walk upon the quilt, 
and pin two or three rows through pretty 
thickly, moving the papers along as I 
proceed. I sometimes lift the quilt, with 
the help of some one, so as not to disturb 
the cotton, and lay it carefully upon the 
dining table, and pin or baste the center 
on that. In this way you have the ad¬ 
vantage of not stooping over and also of 
being able to use your left hand under¬ 
neath the quilt as you pin or baste the 
center together. You are then ready to 
do your stitching. Draw your sewing 
machine up to the dining table, lengthen 
the stitch and begin on one side to stitch 
in straight lines across the quilt. There 
are usually some figures on a comfort 
that you can follow to keep the rows 
straight. If of white goods, take the 
yard stick and dot so many inches apart 
and with pencil or colored chalk rule off 
the lines, using the yard stick for a 
The Farm Wife and The Hired Man. 
It is a common complaint upon farms 
that good money and good treatment 
will not secure necessary help. This 
statement is usually followed by com¬ 
ments upon the worthlessness and in¬ 
dependence of those to be had and that 
their demands are exasperating. Worth¬ 
lessness is characteristic of certain in¬ 
dividuals, male and female, in every 
walk of life. As to the demand of hired 
help for shorter hours and more pay, 
that demand has been met by manufac¬ 
turers. If the hired man on the farm 
cannot get extra pay for extra hours, as 
he does in the mill, then he makes it up 
by charging more for a day’s or month’s 
work. The farmer finds that his only re¬ 
course is to economize on the amount of 
labor hired, and to get a larger share of 
the dollar than his produce brings. 
When the small farmer (by that I 
mean where the help is mostly boarded 
and lodged by the farmwife) is so for¬ 
tunate as to possess the services of a 
respectable, worthy “hired man,” it is 
very necessary that such be retained if 
possible, and I am convinced that the 
farmer’s wife plays a larger part in this 
than she may think. I know good, well- 
meaning women, who never seem to 
think of the influence they exert upon 
these men who are for a time under 
their roofs. We are too apt to think of 
him as a trouble, for which we shall 
never be paid. Now there are a great 
many things that the farmer’s wife does, 
for which she is never paid, but grouchi¬ 
ness does no good, and our daily happi¬ 
ness depends upon whether we find in 
the thought comfort or chagrin. Very 
often the hired man knows no other 
home, and in some cases that I can call 
to mind, he could well say that he had 
no home at all. He is fed and lodged 
an d—neglected. Not that he wants to be 
patronized, but there are so many kind¬ 
nesses that a woman can render in her 
home without being at all familiar or 
patronizing. Some women who are neat 
and clean in other parts of their house, 
think any room, no matter how hot or 
cold, is good enough for the hired man. 
His bed is usually hard, the covering 
not often as clean as should be. Of 
course some men give us no thanks for 
our efforts, but we should continue to 
do our pant. We might see that man 
in a more respected position sometime 
and in a neat, clean home of his own, 
and think with regret of our treatment 
of him. It is not much extra work to 
furnish a clean, white cloth, no matter 
how coarse, for his table, and to arrange 
his table as we would our own. I know 
of some colored men who would find 
neater eating tables in their own homes 
than in the farmers’ kitchens. It is a 
kindness, also, to furnish reading matter 
for Sundays and evenings. The hired 
man makes extra work, and very often 
we wish we could have just our own 
families to do for, but it is part of our 
work, and if it is to the advantage of all 
concerned, worthy work and worth do¬ 
ing well. i. 
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