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May 15, 1015. 
WOMAN AND HOME 
From Day to Day. 
i Mother Magic. 
In days of childhood, now long-lapsed 
and dim. 
Often I sat within a holy place 
"Where mystic word and solemn-rolling 
hymn 
Touched the tranced souls of men to 
thoughts of Grace. 
Too small to comprehend, yet happy there 
I lingered, since beside me, close and 
dear, 
Sat the sweet mother with her rippled 
hair. 
Iler smile of angels and her color clear. 
And she would hold my hand, and so ex¬ 
press. 
In some deep way. the wonder of the 
hour; 
Our spirits talked, by silent tenderness, 
As easily as flower nods to flower. 
And to this day, when so I creep alone 
Into some sacred corner, list the choir, 
Hear some great organ’s most melodious 
moan 
And watch the windows flush daylight 
with fire. 
Over me once again those memories steal ; 
I sit as in a dream, and understand 
God's meaning; for. across the years, I 
feel 
The meek, sure magic of that spirit- 
hand. 
—Richard Burton in Atlantic Monthly. 
* 
Junket is said to make a delicious 
ice cream. It is made like ordinary van¬ 
illa junket, but with one-third cream to 
two-thirds milk. It is flavored a little 
more highly, and sweetened more, than 
for ordinary junket. It is allowed to 
thicken in the usual way. and frozen 
slowly when it is a soft creamy jelly. 
* 
lx some of the small town drug stores 
in the quarry districts of Indiana, you 
can buy anything from talcum powder 
to dynamite, says the Indianapolis News. 
Not long ago, a small quarry operator 
drove up to one of these stores. The 
man was in a buggy, and his wife was 
with him. Calling to the proprietor of 
the store, he said. “Jim, bring out that 
box I bought a while ago!" 
The package was put into the buggy at 
the feet of the man and his wife. The 
latter eyed the box suspiciously. 
“What’s in that package?” she asked 
with some asperity. 
“Now, never mind,” said the husband; 
“that's not going to hurt you.” 
The evasion excited tin* wife’s further 
suspicions. “Ed Spivens,” she exclaimed, 
“that’s a box of dynamite!” 
“Well, what if it is?” said Ed, em¬ 
phatically. “It won't do any damage un¬ 
less it explodes.” 
“Ed Spivens." shrilled the woman, “if 
you think I’m going to ride six miles in 
a buggy with fifty pounds of dynamite at 
my feet you're a bigger fool than I 
thought you were! You have that man 
take that stuff right out and put it in the 
back part of the buggy, under the seat!” 
If some of the men's heavy Winter 
shoes are to be stored away over Summer, 
they should be well brushed, lightly 
rubbed with neatsfoot oil, and wrapped 
in newspaper. A bag, hung in a dry 
place, is all right to store shoes in if 
they are properly wrapped, though a cov¬ 
ered box is better. Above all, do not 
just stand the shoes away in attic or 
closet, where they will gather dust and 
look old and disreputable when next need¬ 
ed. Nice shoes a - d women’s slippers 
should always be held in shape by shoe- 
trees when stored away. One may buy 
the plain shoe-trees for 10 cents a pair, 
and they are a good investment. The 
more elaborate shaped wooden ones that 
fill out the shoe are about 75 cents. 
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Among bulletins every farm house¬ 
keeper should have is Farmers’ Bulletin 
No. 256, issued by the IT. S. Department 
of Agriculture, “Preparation of Vege¬ 
tables for the Table.” No. 359, “Can¬ 
ning Vegetables in the Home”; No. 203. 
“Canned Fruits, Preserves and Jellies,” 
and No. 521, “Canning Tomatoes,” should 
be read and studied before the canning 
season begins. The Government, through 
its varied branches of organization, is is¬ 
suing much information for the house¬ 
keeper; it is an error to think the fields 
and barns only are considered. The bul¬ 
letins named above are free. 
TfclB RURAJU 
The Public Health Service of the 
"United States (Washington, D. C.) has 
a number of reprints from its reports 
that will be found very helpful, as they 
give information and advice on hygiene 
The Rural Patterns 
| In ordering patterns, always give f 
number of pattern and size 
desired. Price of each 
pattern 10 cents. 
8648 — Sectional 
Skirt, 24 to 30 waist. 
8646—Sports Waist 
with Box Plaits, 34 
to 42 bust. 
8633—Child’s Over¬ 
alls or Rompers, 4 
to 8 years. 
863!—Boy's Suit, 
0 to 10 years. 
em * 1 
8640 — Girl’s 
guimpe, 8 to 14 
years. 
8651—Child’s Rom¬ 
pers. 2 to (5 years. 
No. 874 is a design for embroidering a collar 
and cuffs for a child’s coat or dress. The scal¬ 
loped edges are designed' to be padded and but¬ 
tonholed; the sprays of leaves worked either in 
solid embroidery or as eyelets; the stems are to 
be outlined .and the round dots made in solid 
work. Transfer pattern, 10 cents. No. 874 
stamped on finest white small rib pique with 
mercerized floss to complete; price, 30 cents. 
mcut No. 11, “What the Farmer Can Do 
to Prevent Malaria,” should possess wide 
interest. 
Seen in New York Shops. 
Flower-bordered scrim for Summer cur¬ 
tains is offered for 10 cents a yard; it 
is white or ecru, with printed border of 
roses in blue or pink. Scrim with hem¬ 
stitched or fancy drawn-work borders is 
25 cents a yard, 38 inches wide, iu white, 
cream or ecru. Dotted and figured inns- 
NEW-YORKER 
lin for curtains is 15 and 20 cents a 
yard; fancy fish nets are 20, 22 and 25 
cents a yard; plain scrim in white, cream 
and ecru 12 to 20 cents; yellow tarletan, 
which is quite popular for curtains, 12% 
cents a yard ; marquisette 25 cents, and 
Scotch madras, in very attractive de¬ 
signs, white and ecru, from 25 cents to a 
dollar a yard. 
Japanese flower holders, which take a 
variety of shapes, are intended to hold 
the stems of cut flowers so that they will 
stand up in natural position. The hold¬ 
er of bronze or pottery is placed in the 
bottom of the bowl or vase; it contains 
holes into which the stems of the flowers 
are placed, and there is no need to wedge 
heavy-headed flowers to hold them up. 
Frogs, ducks, crabs, turtles and fish are 
popular shapes. One can buy a fish in 
bluish pottery for 23 cents, crabs of dark 
green 29 and 39 cents; a large dark 
green frog on a round base is 99 cents, 
and a bronze turtle on a lily pad is the 
same. The bronze holders are always 
more expensive, and are often beautiful 
bits of Oriental art. The Japanese do 
not wedge a mass of flowers in a vase, as 
we too often do, but place them accord¬ 
ing to well-defined rules, for floral ar¬ 
rangement is an art. 
Girls’ middy blouses in striped ging¬ 
ham are new and pretty, shown in a 
variety of color combinations. Styles in 
duck and khaki are T\ S. Navy, Japanese 
Navy and Tommy Atkins. These blouses 
are $1 to $1.50; skirts of drill and khaki 
to go with them are $1; sizes six to 18 
years. They are becoming to unformed 
girlish figures, and very practical for 
school and general wear. 
Little boys’ suits consisting of white 
blouse and wide knee-length trousers of 
colored wash goods show great variety in 
color, the blouse having collar and cuffs 
to match the trousers. Some seen re¬ 
cently have trousers and trimming of 
plaid gingham quite as gay in color as 
any worn by girls, and this gives the 
suit a very quaint old-fashioned look. 
There is a great vogue for natural 
pongee, which is used to make jacket 
suits, dresses, coats and waists. There 
is considerable variation in color, from 
pure white and cream to shades of sand, 
putty and tan. A light but firm weight 
used to make aeroplane wings because it 
is tough, yet light, costs 50 cents a yard 
at one famous shop and is excellent for 
waists and dresses; it is 33 inches wide. 
This is the regular Shantung pongee, 
slightly irregular in weave. Pongees of 
firm smooth weave are $1.25 to $2 a yard. 
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