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Woman and the Home 
T'HLC tiUttAL NEW-YORKER 
From Day to Day 
THE FLAG. 
Your 
Flag and my Flag! 
And how it flies to-day 
In your land and my land 
And half a world away ! 
Rose-red and blood-red 
The stripes forever gleam 
Snow-white and soul-white— 
The good forefather’s 
Sky-blue and true blue, with 
gleam aright— 
The gloried guidon of the day ; 
through the night. 
dream 
stars 
Your 
Your 
Your 
Flag and my Flag! 
And, oh. how much it holds— 
land and my land— 
Secure within its folds! 
heart and my heart 
Beat quicker at the sight; 
Sun-kissed and wind-tossed. 
Red and blue and white. 
The one Flag—the great Flag—the 
for me and yon — 
Glorifies all else beside—the red 
white and blue! 
Your 
Flag and my Flag! 
To every star and stripe 
The drums beat as hearts beat 
And fifers shrilly pipe! 
Your Flag and my Flag— 
A blessing in the sky ; 
Your hope and my hope— 
It never hid a lie! 
Home land and far land and half the 
world around, 
Old Glory hears our glad salute and 
ripples to the sound ! 
—Wilbur 1). Xesbit. 
Many housekeepers keep lemons by 
putting them in a jar of cold water. A 
fruit-grower says that a better way is to 
wipe the lemons carefully with a soft 
woolen cloth, avoiding pinching or bruis¬ 
ing, then wrap each lemon separately in 
paraffin paper. Store in a box, in a 
cool dark place. 
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In considering some of the dark 
tragedies that involve young women, as 
depicted in the daily papers, one is often 
struck by their determination to secure 
personal happiness or gratification at any 
cost, regardless of the rights or sufferings 
of others. Putting aside the question of 
moral and religious principles, is there 
not something wrong in an educational 
system which seems to exaggerate the 
ego to such abnormal proportions? We 
are not referring here to those reared in 
poverty and deprivation, with no recrea¬ 
tion ground but the street, but to young 
people reared in comfort, who have had 
all the advantages of ordinary education. 
Is it the school, the home, or the stand¬ 
ards of social life that make them unable 
to withstand such temptations as are 
common to humanity? 
Mourning crape is expensive, perish¬ 
able, and costly to restore, if a profes¬ 
sional cleaner is employed. The follow¬ 
ing method is advised for home renova¬ 
tion : Carefully brush and shake the 
crape to remove all dust. Place a folded 
sheet on the table, pin the crape to it, 
keeping perfectly straight and flat, but 
without stretching it. Dissolve one tea¬ 
spoonful of granulated sugar in a pint 
of boiling water, and moisten a clean 
cloth with this. Lay the damp cloth 
lightly on the crape, then go over the 
cloth with a very hot iron, without touch¬ 
ing it. The operator should go over the 
damp cloth carefully, just as though 
ironing it, but never touching it; actual 
ironing would ruin the crape. This is 
continued until the cloth is nearly dry, 
when the cloth may be moistened again 
and the process repeated. This steam¬ 
ing carefully done, restores the crispness 
and deep crinkle of the crape, so that 
it looks new. 
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A recent newspaper note states that 
Miss Elizabeth M. Kilbourn, over 80 and 
recently lying ill in the Litchfield County 
Hospital in Winsted, Conn., was the first 
woman to take a stitch on a sewing ma¬ 
chine. In the early ’50s she was a teacher 
in a private school in New Hartford 
when Elias Howe was experimenting with 
his invention in a dingy shop in a base¬ 
ment on the present site of the New 
Hartford House. She became interested 
in his invention and was finally permitted 
to operate it. 
“There, you are the first woman in 
this world who ever took a stitch on a 
sewing machine,” Howe said to Miss 
Kilbourn when at his invitation she tried 
the machine. 
At that time there was no pedal ar¬ 
rangement and the operator had to turn 
the wheel by hand. Two needles were 
inserted in the machine, as Miss Kil¬ 
bourn remembers it. Elias Howe was 
very poor in those days and sharpened 
February 21, 
8154—One-piece draped skirt, 22 to 32 
waist. With high or natural waist line, 
S143—Two-piece draped skirt, 22 to 32 
waist. With or without tunic and train, 
with high or natural waist line. Price 
of each pattern, 10 cents. 
to 
knives and did odd 
his basement shop, 
fected his sewing 
to Bridgeport, and 
jobs for a living in 
When he had per- 
maebine he went 
shortly afterward 
a shelter 
Wheeler and Wilson moved 
Watertown, Conn., and the 
bined, and Howe died rich. 
there 
three 
from 
com- 
Flag 
and 
The Rural Patterns. 
When ordering patterns always give 
number of pattern and measurements de¬ 
sired. 
8147—Blouse coat for misses and small 
women, 1G and 38 years. With three- 
quarter or long sleeves. 8140—Cutaway 
coat for misses and small women, 16 and 
18 years. S141—Short coat, 34 to 40 
bust. With three-quarter or long sleeves. 
8134—Loose coat, 34 to 44 bust. To be 
buttoned up closely at the throat or 
rolled open to form revers, with straight 
or curved fronts. Perforated for shorter 
length. 8170—Coat in Russian style 
for misses and small women, 16 and 18 
years. With three-quarter or long 
sleeves. 
8168—Fancy blouse for misses and 
small women, 16 and 18 years. With 
1 -shaped or square neck, short or elbow 
sleeves. S142—Fancy blouse, 34 to 40 
bust. With Japanese sleeves in elbow 
or full length, with or without chemis¬ 
ette. 8166 — Semi-princess dress for 
misses and small women, 16 and IS years. 
With one-piece skirt, V-shaped or round 
neck, with or without under sleeves. 
A Salmagundi Party. 
For the hostess who is not quite cer¬ 
tain as to her ability to entertain a party 
of friends without cards or dancing, the 
salamagundi party is a happy solution. 
The very name will serve to arouse curi¬ 
osity, and those not familiar with this 
form of entertainment will be eager to 
come and find out what it is like. 
In sending out your invitations, write 
across the top of your notes or cards, 
“An evening with Salmagundi.” Arrange 
your rooms tastefully, but remove all un¬ 
necessary pieces of furniture, to make 
room for six or eight small tables, ac¬ 
cording to the number of guests you 
have invited, those should be large enough 
to seat four, and can be placed in the 
corners and center of the room, or 
wherever there is space large enough. If 
one room happens to be too small for so 
many tables, two adjoining rooms can be 
used just as successfully. 
In the center of each table arrange 
some simple game, each of a different 
character, of course. Cut white letter 
paper into long, narrow strips, four for 
each table, and mark the first set Al, A2, 
A3 and A4; the second Ill, B2, B3 and 
B4, and so on until each table is pro¬ 
vided with a set, then place the slips in 
a box, shake, and allow each guest to 
draw one; those drawing one and two 
will be partners, against those drawing 
three and four, and at every table the 
game is played for a specified time. When 
the time is up the scores are put down 
on the slips by the players, counting one 
for every win. Those winning move on 
to the next table, the losers remaining 
where they are for another trial. Those 
winning at the table marked A go on to 
table B, and those at the last table— 
say table F, if there are six tables, to 
table A, and in this way until all the 
games have been played, those winning 
all, or the most games, first, are awarded 
prizes. 
Games that are easy and will create 
much merriment should be choosen. Pick¬ 
ing up beans with toothpicks is great 
sport; the beans are piled in the center 
of the table, and the player with two 
toothpicks in his right hand sees how 
many beans he can pick up. The win¬ 
ners are those who have picked up the 
greatest number. 
Building card houses is another; the 
one who is able to built the highest 
house without toppling over once in the 
attempt, wins. Fish pond is an old game, 
and very amusing. Threading needles is 
another; this table is supplied with four 
reels of cotton and four medium-sized 
needles, and whichever threads the most 
needles, is the winner. Table croquet, 
dominoes, ludo, tiddly-winks, and similar 
games are suitable for an entertainment 
of this kind. 
After the prizes are awarded, which 
may be some fancy little articles, made i 
by the hostess herself, for the ladies, and 
something simple and unique for the men, 
the refreshments are served. 
On the bill of fare for a “salmagundi 
party” should be the old-fashioned dish, 
called salmagundi, meaning a miscellany, 
and from which the party really gets its 
name. This is, as every one knows that 
is familiar with it, a mixture of chopped 
meat, hard-boiled eggs, anchovies, and 
cabbage, which does not sound at all 
tempting for an evening affair, neverthe¬ 
less, it can be modernized into a very at¬ 
tractive dish, in this way: Mix equal 
parts of cold cooked chicken meat, chop¬ 
ped rather fine, and finely chopped crisp 
uncooked cabbage, with some good salad 
dressing. Pile this in the center of a 
salad bowl, and garnish the edge of the 
dish with lettuce leaves, slices of hard- 
boiled eggs, and a few anchovies; served 
with plain bread and butter folds and 
followed with ice cream, cake and coffee, 
you will have a bill of fare fit for a 
king. 
Or, if the hostess prefers to serve 
lighter refreshments, she might have 
simply the bread and butter folds, olives, 
chicken or cheese sandwiches, followed 
by cake and cocoa or coffee. 
ROSAMOND LAMPMAN. 
$2,000 Crop 
from a Small 
Tomato Patch 
John DeBoer raised 
2,000 plants from the 
seed of our new early 
variety of tomato to 
test its merits for com¬ 
mercial purposes. The 
plants received only the 
ordinary care and cultiva¬ 
tion, yet Mr. DeBoer marketed —i 
few weeks later—$2,000 worth of tomatoes from the 2,000 plants) 
Rowe’s Grand Rapids Market Tomato 
is large, fine shaped, and a beautiful deep rich pink in 
color. Its meat is solid—cutting this tomato is like cut¬ 
ting a rich, juicy beefsteak—and it has but very few 
seeds. The flavor is delicious. Rowe’s Grand Rapids 
Market Tomato is the earliest ripening of any heavy 
yielding commercial variety. It is uniform in size—each 
full grown tomato averaging about a half-pound— 
nearly the entire crop will grade as fancy. It is b 
splendid shipping variety. 
Our Special Free Seed Offer 
We are the originators of this wonderful new variety 
and the seed cannot yet be secured from anyone but us. 
To introduce our publication— 
The Fruit Belt 
to readers of this paper, we will give a package—con¬ 
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with each subscription to this progressive paper for 
fruit and vegetable growers. Price, one year, 60c; 
Canada, 76c. Coin or stamps. 
Accept this offer today—the number of packages is 
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reading ‘ The Fruit Belt ” as well as enjoy the fine, 
luscious tomatoes you raise from this seed. 
THE FRUIT BELT, Box GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. 
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