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■Ghe RURAL NEW-YORKER 
February 24, 1917. 
WOMAN AND HOME 
From Day to Day 
Justice 
lieside the nation’s flag unfurled 
The stern and starry goddess stands, 
And lifts above a breathless world 
The balance in her hands. 
Drawn from all empires round her beat, 
Dlood red, earth’s pulsing artpies. 
As round these wide shores circling meet 
The waters of all seas. 
She turns to the cerulean skies 
Her starlit vi.sion and serene, 
With eyes blindfold to greed and lies 
And all things low and mean. 
Unbending to the weak or strong, 
Unheeding pleas or parties’ plight, 
She weighs the right against the wrong 
And holds her .sword to smite. 
O starry Justice, undismayed. 
Keep steadfast guard above our land, 
Whose deeds are in the balance weighed 
Before thy sworded hand ! 
—M. E. Buehler in New York Sun. 
* 
Many farm girls, fired by the same 
feeling of patriotism as their brothers 
in the present crisis, will wonder how 
they may best display loyalty to coun¬ 
try. To work at ambulance or hospital 
duty, or in a great factory making gov¬ 
ernment supplies, or to take up some line 
of work that will release a man for his 
country’s call, is an obvious patriotism 
that sound like romance and adventure, 
and all the other picturesque things so 
different from prosaic everyday duty in 
the farm home. And yet some of the 
most useful women in Great Britain 
now wear a green armlet with insignia 
announcing the. governments recognition 
of their services—they have chosen to 
work upon the land and help to feed the 
nation, rather than to take other more 
highly paid or more picturesque work. 
One of the first things to do in aid¬ 
ing to conserve the nation’s resources, 
is to conserve the farm girl. She should 
be healthy, active and cheerful, and she 
should learn to make the most of her 
activity, both of body and mind. She 
should learn to make the most of home 
supplies and personal belongings, and 
this means not merely doing without 
things, which is not always the wisest 
economy, but planning both work and 
purchases with the idea of making the 
most of everything. It is very poor econ¬ 
omy that makes a girl feel the farm is 
chiefly a place to skimp until one saves 
money enough to get away to town. 
The farm girl, and indeed evei'v girl, 
conserves her energy and increases her 
value to the home and family, and thus 
to the nation, by making her.self more 
efficient in all the work that comes be¬ 
fore her. She should endeavor to learn 
all she can that will increase her manual 
dexterity. If she knows how to care for 
ordinary garden plants, how to run a 
motor-car, or a gasoline engine, she is 
more valuable than if she can cook and 
sew, without any idea of these other 
industries. That she should have knowl¬ 
edge of surgical first aid and home nurs¬ 
ing goes without saying, for every wom¬ 
an should have this knowledge, that she 
may be ready for domestic emergencies. 
After all, when we come down to first 
principles, all the qualities a girl or 
woman needs in times of great public 
stress or calamity are the very qualities 
needed to make her helpful, efficient and 
truly accomplished in private life. So, 
whether th!s year of trial brings greater 
calamity to the new world, or the longed- 
for olive branch to the old, the best 
patriotism of the farm girl will take the 
form of wider knowledge and ability, 
that will rank her among the nation’s 
best assets in peace or war. 
Seen in New York Shops 
Slip-on middy blouses for women start 
at $1. Cotton crash slip-ons with sail¬ 
or’s bowknots are $1.50. Smocks of old 
blue galatea start at $2.50, and there are 
handsome hand-embroidered smocks be¬ 
ginning at $3. Judging from the dis¬ 
plays made in the good shops, both these 
useful and sensible fashions are to re¬ 
main in vogue. In addition to ordinary 
smocking, the smocks are sometimes dec¬ 
orated with Russian or Balkan embroid¬ 
ery. There are private makers and 
handicraft shops offering artistic smocks, 
beautifully worked, one familiar sign 
near Fifth Avenue merely bearing the 
words “Barbara—Smocks.” A girl who 
can do fine hand sewing can make her¬ 
self very attractive garments of this 
class. 
Among trimmings for Spring millinery 
are flat cabochons of French flowers, 
garlands of tiny flowers, some made of 
ribbon, colored embroidery bands, ap- 
jtliqued velvet flower.s, crowns of metal 
brocade or embroidered Japanese silk, 
facings and bandings of silk, crepe de 
chine or Georgette crepe, 'and a variety 
of bright-colored wool embroideries. 
A great many National flags are now 
being purchased, and we recently saw 
flags of all-wool bunting fast dye, size 
4x6 feet, in one of the large department 
.stores for $.3.09. This is a desirable 
heme size. Prices increa.se with the 
size, varying up to $15.49 for a fine flag 
of the same grade 10x15 feet. A con¬ 
venient flag holder for mounting a small 
pole is made for screwing to a window 
ledge or i)orch, co.sting $1.19; it is made 
of galvanized iron, and has a ratchet 
which holds the flag at any desired angle. 
Leeirning to Read Without Books 
Having returned to my “first love” in 
the educational field—teaching the be¬ 
ginners—after more than twenty years’ 
The Rural Patterns 
In ordering give number of pattern and size 
desired. Price of each pattern 15 cents. 
service in institute work (teaching 
teachers) perhaps I may be of service 
to mothers who wish to give their little 
folks a start, before sending them to 
school. While reading may not be the 
first thing—nor the very worst thing— 
to manage, it is an important step; and 
if the teaching can be simplified, and 
the learning made a pleasure, progress 
will be so rapid as to astonish. 
My class, boys and girls, were of 
“kindergarten” age only—the youngest 
but four, the oldest but five years old— 
and all innocent of books. • I bought 
a 10-cent set of alphabet blocks, cube 
form, distributing them, one to each, to 
“help you get acquainted with some new 
friends, whom you will be very happy 
to know.” 
On some large cards I had put the 
word “MIEK”; and after a little con¬ 
versation about W’hat they ate and drank 
for breakfast, I developed the w'ord, spell¬ 
ing it. and asking any who wanted to 
spell it as I pointed to the letters on the 
card. 
Then I asked: “Who has the block 
that has M on it?” and the hunt began 
in dead earnest, the other letters fol¬ 
lowing in the same way. Then I as¬ 
sembled the blocks that had those four 
letters, and allowed each child to point 
to them as they stood on my desk, read¬ 
ing and .spelling the word. Then, “Who 
can spell it with his eyes shut?” fol¬ 
lowed by more conversation about milk. 
The next day w'e reviewed “milk,” and 
tackled “sugar.” Before the second week 
was over, they could all spell other 
words, including ice, coal, coat, cold 
cup, baby, mamma, little and good, and 
had learned the alphabet of capitals, 
I)rinting those of the simplest forms. 
Then I prepared some cards (backs 
of old envelopes cut to even sizes) and 
put the “little letters” alongside of the 
capitals, so: IJ, Oo, Ee, one letter (both 
forms) on each card, and distributed 
them for “study” and to “show me, who 
has H,” etc. 
Then, from the advertising pages of 
such magazines and newspapers as I 
had, I cut small pictures of cup, boy, 
girl, shoe, house, honse, dress, chair, and 
other familiar objects, printing the name 
of each under the picture ,and letting tbe 
child w'ho could find the card with the 
W'ord for which I called bring it to me 
to read. How' their eyes shone, and 
how eager they were to be first in the 
race! It was play and a privilege, but 
not a task nor a burden—though a very 
truly lesson. 
My next step was “reading cards,” 
made in the same wmy, but with sen¬ 
tences instead of pictures and words. I 
keep some attractive books on hand, for 
use once a week, when they all go “word- 
hunting” for something already learned; 
and every day they print or write—at 
first letters, then words. I began that 
with their own initials, first of their 
given names, then the surnames, and 
eventually the full word. 
Two hours daily, Monday to Friday, 
inclusive, from October 15 to January 
15, has done that for reading, spelling, 
and writing. Number work and recita¬ 
tions may be considered in separate pa¬ 
pers, as the results in these have been 
wonderful, while the motor activities 
have been engaged in marching, 'bending, 
running, painting, paper-folding, etc.— 
and no tears shed. 
Ambition has been stirred, and when 
.Tohn, 5%, and Annette, 4%, announce 
“I learned a new word bust night,” I 
know that it has been “flour,” “eggs,” 
“coffee” or some similar thing from the 
packages or bags in the pantry; and I 
was more than pleased when Janet. 4%, 
said yesterday: “I can spell hot, cold, 
and waste,” for I knew she had found 
these in the bath-room ! 
LUCY A. YENnES-PRESTON. 
Making Black Pudding in Lancashire 
The blood must be stirred with salt till 
cold; put a quart of it to a quart of whole 
grits (rice or the real old-fashioned 
Scotch oatmeal) to soak one night, and 
soak the crumb of a quartern loaf in two 
quarts of milk, made hot; in the mean¬ 
time prepare the sausage skins by wash¬ 
ing, turning and scraping with salt and 
water, changing the water several times. 
Chop fine a little Winter savory, and 
thyme, a good quantity of pennyroyal, 
pepper and salt, a few cloves, some all¬ 
spice, ginger and nutmeg. Mix these 
with three pounds of beef suet. Beat the 
bread and grits all up with the seeason- 
ing. When well mixed have ready some 
hog’s fat cut into large bits, and as you 
fill the skins put in at proper distance. 
Tie in links only half filled, and boil in a 
large kettle, pricking them as they swell, 
or they will burst. When boiled lay them 
between clean clothes till cold, and hang 
them up in the kitchen. When to be used 
scald them a few minutes in water, wipe 
and put them into a Dutch oven. If there 
are not .skins enough, put the stuffing into 
basins and boil it covered with floured 
cloths, and slice and fry it when used, 
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