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November 13, 1915. 
WOMAN AND HOME 
From Day to Day. 
Still Thankful. 
The new corn rustles crisp brown praise 
to God, 
The pumpkin ripens with the grace of 
gold, , . . , 
The beanstalk bursts its pod in gratitude, 
1’otatoes lift their eyes from out the 
mold : 
And I am thankful. 
The trees with arms stark naked to the 
sky 
Have dropped their nutty fruit along 
the wold, 
The nursing rain bedecks itself in white 
To warmly wrap seed children from 
the cold: 
And I am thankful. 
Aye, thankful for the death of pod and 
stalk, 
When harvests thirty, hundredfold ap¬ 
pear, 
And thankful for the branch that braves 
the cold, 
►So seed time come again another year. 
Yes, I am thankful. 
And should the tree with leaves be green 
again 
It will rejoice to see its children grow; 
And should it fail and rot and mould 
away, 
What richness will it yield the earth 
below ! 
Still T am thankful. 
—Joseph A. Richards in Sunday School 
Times. 
* 
Wiiat do you think of the plan of dis¬ 
carding the broom, and keeping the floor 
“swept” with a damp cloth and hand 
brush? Its advocate says the result is 
no dusting, because dust is not scattered 
by sweeping and that getting down to 
the floor with a cloth may be treated as 
a physical culture exercise. Our own 
preference is for thj light-weight vacuum 
cleaner. 
* 
Fried bread is one of those things a 
dietitian would disapprove of perhaps, 
but the family will like it. When the 
bread dough is ready for the pans cut 
off a good-sized piece, roll on the floured 
board, and then cut into strips four 
inches long and one-half inch thick. Roll 
these round, place on a floured board, 
and let them remain long enough to puff 
up. Have ready a kettle of hot fat, as 
for frying doughnuts, and fry the little 
rolls a delicate brown. Serve hot with 
maple syrup or honey. 
* 
According to a bulletin issued by the 
New Haven Railroad, 5.471 persons were 
killed in the United States last year 
while walking on railroad tracks—one 
every 96 minutes. Every one of those 
thousands was trespassing where he had 
no right to be—just taking a chance to 
save time. In many foreign countries 
walking on a railroad track is trespass, 
punishable by fine or imprisonment. In 
this country the average citizen feels that 
he has a perfect right to go anywhere he 
is not absolutely walled out—hence the 
loss and annoyance inflicted upon farm¬ 
ers by wanton trespass. There are many 
cases where country and village children 
are allowed to walk on the railroad be¬ 
cause roads are rough and muddy, es¬ 
pecially during the Winter season. We 
think parents and teachers would do 
well to point out both the risk taken, and 
the trespass involved. Every one of 
those 5,471 deaths recorded was prevent¬ 
able—a waste of the human material. 
And after all, if local roads are ever 
really impassable at any season, so that 
human beings must take the risk of the 
railroad track, it looks as though there 
was something the matter with the ad¬ 
ministration of public utilities in that 
particular locality. 
* 
It is the season now to look, during 
woodland walks, for any bit of decorat¬ 
ing material that may be used in the 
home, or for country gifts, after the 
stormy days come. There are some good 
suggestions in floral arrangement in a 
bulletin sent out in the Cornell Reading 
Course last May ((Farmhouse Series 
No. 8, “The Decorative Use of Flow¬ 
ers”), but at this season it is seeds, ber¬ 
ries and evergreens that attract us. 
Autumn leaves are a fleeting joy, for they 
soon curl up and grow dusty, even when 
pressed or waxed. We prefer the gay 
fruits of cornels, bittersweet, wild roses, 
wild allspice, etc. Then it is quite pos¬ 
sible to make decorations of the living 
plants, like miniature Japanese gardens. 
For these we use flat baskets with a tin 
or crockery dish set inside; the expert 
basket-maker will make them herself, but 
there are many pretty ones at the va¬ 
rious 10-cent. stores. Plenty of rough 
stones or clean cinders are put in the 
bottom of the dish, before putting in 
plants and earth. Suitable material for 
filling such baskets are evergreen ferns, 
tiny seedling evergreen trees, prince’s pine, 
checkerberry, partridge berry, and va¬ 
rious mosses. A little hemlock or cedar, 
with some checkerberry by it, and the 
surface of the soil covered with moss and 
trailing partridge berry, is quite as pret¬ 
ty as some ambitious miniature garden 
from the florist. A section of an eight 
or 10-inch branch with the bark left on, 
hollowed out into a trough, would be 
a charming receptacle for such woodland 
plants. Such a souvenir of the country 
would make a pretty gift for a friend in 
town, or for the shut-in whose woodland 
walks are over. 
Seen in New York Shops. 
Stockings that are “warranted to wear” 
are made of a special hard-finished cot¬ 
ton in black, white and tan, for men, 
women and children. They really do 
have a surprising strength and resistance 
to wear. In medium weight they are 24 
cents, heavy weight 33 cents. 
Pictorial stamps come in sheets of 16, 
gummed on the back and perforated like 
postage stamps, for 10 cents a sheet. 
They are a present fad, being attached to 
letter paper or the backs of envelopes 
like a seal. The sets are seen for home 
and foreign countries, cities and States; 
some small towns take up the fad, as it 
is quite easy to have local photographs 
made up into these stamps, which take 
the place of picture postal cards. 
Fur-edged veils are among new models. 
There is great variety in veiling, because 
the veil is really a part of the hat’s 
trimming in many fashionable styles. 
There are large square veils, and also 
circular ones, in lace design, put on in. 
slightly gathered fullness, some of the 
“Marie-Odile” style, hanging in straight 
folds at the back like a mourning veil. 
Indian blanket coats, plain or plaid, 
some with slashed fringes, are new outer 
garments for women’s sport and motor 
wear. Tam o’ Shanters are shown to 
match. Fringed blanket skirts are also 
shown. 
A tip table of solid mahogany inlaid, 
17-inch size, is $5. It is a copy of a colo¬ 
nial model. 
I’loomers of mercerized lisle are 50 
cents in flesh, white and black. An en¬ 
velope chemise of lisle with short or 
no sleeves, is offered by a shop making 
a specialty of clothing for stout women; 
the lisle makes less bulk than muslin. 
The cosiest little masculine overcoat 
for a small boy is wool chinchilla lined 
with flannel. Very nice ones with em¬ 
blem on sleeve, blue or brown, sizes two 
to five years, are $6. 
A wonderful display of 'Belgian “war 
laces” was recently shown by one of the 
large stores. It included examples of 
Flanders, Rosaline, Mechlin, Venetian 
point Drooehel, Duehesse, Brussels, point 
de Paris, and many old laces that will 
now be difficult, if not impossible to du¬ 
plicate, for this wonderful art, handed 
down among Flemish women from gen¬ 
eration to generation, is now scattered 
and destroyed. No other textile art 
equals the fairylike cobwebs of the lace 
maker in refinement of beauty, and some 
of this Belgian lace is like hoar-frost, 
done into thread. Attempts are being 
made to promote the sales of these laces, 
and thus encourage an art in women’s 
work that is threatened with extinction. 
Destroying Roaches. 
Will you tell us how to destroy black 
roaches? Our house is brick. On warm 
nights the floor is black with roaches. 
E. n. 
No doubt this is the Oriental cock¬ 
roach or black beetle, which is nearly 
wingless, dark brown or black, growing 
to about an inch in length. A number of 
control methods are advised. One simple 
way of destroying them is to mix plaster 
of Paris one part, and flour three or four 
parts, dry, in a saucer, and place the 
preparation where the insects run. Near 
by place a saucer containing a little 
water,* laying a few sticks as bridges to 
the rim. The insects eat the mixture, 
drink the water, and soon die. Dr. Felt 
(New York State Entomologist) says 
that scattering naphthalene flakes thick¬ 
ly about the floor, and also the liberal 
use of pyrethrum or Persian insect pow¬ 
der, is of service; the paralyzed roaches 
should be swept up and burned. It is 
also said that burning pyrethrum powder 
in infested rooms is quite effective. The 
room should be kept closed from six to 
10 hours. O’Kane advises pouring out 
the powder on a piece of tin or a pan 
set over a kerosene lamp for destroying 
mosquitoes, as this does not give off much 
smoke, but fills the air with volatile oil 
that stupefies the insects. This would 
seem preferable to the smudge made by 
burning the powder. 
Homemade Christmas Sweets. 
Homemade candies and fancy cakes 
have long been associated with the holi¬ 
day preparations in every Christian na¬ 
tion, and in this country the custom of 
sending them as Y'uletide gifts grows 
more popular each year. With such dain¬ 
ties comes a demand for suitable and in¬ 
expensive holders for sending them in 
and, if one likes, these may be made at 
home, too. Simple pretty boxes can be 
easily and quickly devised from a few 
sheets of card-board or rough water-color 
paper, in almost any shape you might 
fancy, and when they are neatly lined 
with waxed paper, and tied with gay 
Christmas ribbon or cord, and a bit of 
holly added to the top, they are very 
attractive indeed. 
If you are at all artistic these holders 
can be made quite elaborate by decorating 
them in water colors, especially those 
made of the water-color paper, or with 
pen and ink sketches. The girl with a 
camera would have any number of charm¬ 
ing home scenes to choose from which 
would make a decoration that would glad- 
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Lamps 
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