1050 
September 7, lOlS 
I WOMAN AND HOME 
From Day to Day 
“Fraid Cat” 
The drooping branches, dark and cool. 
Still hang above the tranquil puol. 
While gleaming fish drift unafraid 
^^'hore once the children splashed and 
played. 
The vagrant sunbeam’s golden sheen 
Runs o’ei- the water clear and green, 
And you might think the river smiled 
In memory of that small child 
Who once stood frightened on the brink 
And watched the others rise and sink. 
And shrank from all the sport they made, 
Because, they said, he Avas afraid. 
Tim drooping branches, dark and cool, 
Still hang aljovc the tranquil pool. 
f'ardinal flowei’s lift their flame 
Where once he stood in trembling shame 
While “Ruck” and “Doc” and all the rest 
Spla.shed him and screamed out foolish 
.iest 
And mocked his face and body thin 
Because he “didn’t dast come in,” 
And filled the glade Avith Avhoops and 
yells 
And dived for mud and mussel shells 
Or sang this taunting dirge at him: 
“The coAvardy kid’s afraid to SAvim.” 
The maple saplings Avhero they hung— 
Ilis shirt and trousers that they flung—• 
Is now a tall and stahvart tree. 
The years slip by .so silently ! 
Its drooping branches, dark and cool, 
Hang loAV above the tranquil pool. 
And that Avas tAventy years ago. 
lIoAV SAvift the quiet AA'aters flow! 
Noav all those .icering comrades seem 
The figures in an old, old dream. 
And .A’et how clear and meek and sad, 
lie stands there, still that little lad, 
Where all those years ago he stood, 
The scarlet floAvers gleam like blood. 
A Avind that sets the leaves a-quiver. 
Sends questing ripples o’er the river, 
B-Kt wind, nor sun, nor little AAave 
Can ever rouse him from that grave 
AVhere ’neath a battered , cross he lies 
Within the la’-id of .sacrifice. 
And o’er that timid heart at rest, 
A cross of Avar is on his breast. 
The drooping branches, dark and cool. 
Hang loAV almA'e the tran(iuil pool. 
—New York Tribune. 
* 
SuROEOX OrxER.VE Gorgas announced 
August 10 that young wiA-es of men fight¬ 
ing in France Avill be accepted in the 
Army School of Nursing, Avhich has been 
established by the Army Medical Depart¬ 
ment to supplement the supply of gi-ad- 
uate nurses. It is estimated that <00,000 
Avoinen Avill be needed for service over¬ 
seas by .Tuly 1, IfllO. Most of them must 
be trained nurses, experienced and inde¬ 
pendent of ties Avhich make it impossible 
for them to leav’e home. But the supply 
of graduate nurses avail.able for this 
Avork has been far less than the demand, 
esiiecially Avhen it Avas thought necessary 
to refuse AA’ives and sisters of men in the 
seiwice. The embargo on sisters Avas re¬ 
moved by the Red Cross some time .ago, 
and now Genei'a’ Gorgas offers to recei\e 
Avives as Avell, physically fit, between the 
ages of tAA'cnt.v-one and thirty-five, to be 
trained and sent abroad as the need 
arises. Fully fifteen thousand AA-onnai, 
says General Gorgas, can be used as hos¬ 
pital assistants or student nurses in the 
I’nited States. So great is the scarcity 
of nurses that a .shorter course of train¬ 
ing than the regular three or four-year 
coAirse offered by hospitals is suggested. 
Dr. GoldAvater, chairman of the Avar 
service committee of the American Hos¬ 
pital As.sociation, favors a six months’ 
course of emergency training in large 
civil hospitals, but the Noav York State 
Education Department opposes this. It 
is possible that, Avith an arm.v of 5.000,000 
men instead of .S,000,000, the demand for 
nurses may exceed the number originally 
asked for by at least 2.').000. In that 
case. Dr. GoldAvater suggests, it may be 
necessary to resort to the plan. Avhich 
apparently has proved successful Avith 
Great Britain, of using nurse aids in 
groups, Avith a graduate nurse in chargi' 
to direct and oversee them. This, he be¬ 
lieves, would not only relieve tin* situa¬ 
tion overseas, but Avould enable us to 
take care of our wounded men Avithout 
seriou.sly criiqding our home hospitals b.v 
taking aAvay al! competent nur.ses for 
ai’iny service. 
* 
The folloAving recipe for sorghum pie 
is given by the United States Food Ad¬ 
ministration : Tavo cups sorghum, one 
tablespoonful butter, four eggs, pinch of 
salt. Boil syrup and butter together, 
pour over eggs beaten Avith salt, stirring 
ZTAe RURAL N E W«Y O R K E R 
briskly. Have pie pans ready, lined Avith 
crust. Pour in and bake. Chopped nuts 
sprinkled over the pie after baking add 
the finishing touch to this pie. This 
quantity Avill make tAvo pies. 
I’EEKSKIEL, N. Y., has a Avoman R. F. 
D. carrier in place of a man who has 
been drafted. The former carrier used a 
horse and Avagon, but the Avoman carrier 
uses an automobile, thus lessening the 
time required for completing the route. 
The Sugar Situation 
The following announcement regarding 
sugar Avas made in the Official Bulletin, 
August 12: 
America, Avhich made exports of 140,- 
000,000 bushels of Avheat in the clo.sing 
crop year, Avhere less than 20,000,000 
The Rural Patterns 
In ordering always give number of pattern 
and size desired, sending price with order 
Mililary Coat 
for Misses .iioi Siiifill 
AA'oiiicii, K; ami IK 
.years. I'lice 3.A 
cents. 
9c,.-,9. f51 i p - 0 n 
.Sports Coat, 31 to 
43 bust. Price 15 
cents. 
9ti3.'i. Straiglit Skirl 
Avith Yoke. 34 to 30 
Avalst. Price l.A cts. 
9.A92. Bodice tvlfh 
'runic, 34 to 40 bust. 
Price l.A eenis for 
the bodice and tunic 
and 3 0 cents for the 
skirt. 
9503. 'I'wo - I’iece 
Skirt. 34 to 34 w.uist. 
]‘rice 15 cents for 
the bodice and tunic 
.und 3(( cents for the 
skirt. 
9.5K7. Dross \v i t )i 
Side Closing, 3ii to 
43 bust. I’rice 15 
eenis. 
Fall Foods 
Tomtito Ctitsiip.— retd ripe tomatoes, 
grind to pulp in a food chopper. To 
each gallon of the ground pul]) add one 
Clip of ground onion, one cup of vinegar. 
tAvo Clips sugar or syrup, one table- 
spoonful salt, one teaspoonful ginger, or 
mixed siiices to taste. Boil for I.") 
miimles. Seal in bottles or .jtirs. This 
bushehs surplus appetired, is called upon 
now to exercise like virtue Avith sugar. 
The burden of maiuttiining tillied sii])- 
plies fitlls on our resourct's. 
No sugar comes from Gentrii! Eiiroiie, 
none from JaA'a ; from Hawaii and West 
Indies less than usual. 
I'rench sugar territory is overrun by 
German armies; French sugar mills are 
t.aken and destroyed. 
Submjirint' sinkings and lo.sses by battle 
have cost us grettt stores; labor shortage 
mtikes inroiids on production. 
For England the alloAvauce is tAvo 
pounds of sugar a mouth; for France one 
pound; for Italy, one pound. America 
seeks to share equally Avith till wlio sit :it 
tlie common table, .ioined in the common 
defense. 
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Yet! 
Pcrliap.Ktliopresorvos you’ve 
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