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February 8, 1919 
WOMAN AND HOME 
From Day to Day 
The Blind 
Light! Let there be Light, 
The Great Creator said. 
And over His unfinished work was shed 
The primal blessing of the world, 
The greatest of all wrought, 
Without whose life-inspiring power 
Creation would be naught. 
Light! Light! 
And we, with sight. 
Accept it as our right 
With little thought of what 
We might be, were it not, 
While thousands, without hope 
Of sight, must grope 
In darkness through a night 
In which there is no dawn, no light. 
To them the primal blessing is denied ; 
To them there is no vision wide 
By which the hungry eye is satisfied 
We do not know why God lias closed 
His creatures’ windows thus, 
And shut them from the light 
That lie has given to us 
Who are not blind ; 
We only know the darkened eye 
Is not the darkened mind. 
And though the light outside 
To them has been denied, 
Within there is a light 
Which makes them almost sanctified. 
We know their cheerfulness, 
We know how glad they are to take 
The hand put out to help; 
How quick they are to make 
Their darkness light 
In their own way, 
And, without sight, 
See shining what to seeing eyes is gray. 
Thus do tlie blind lead those who see, 
And wo 
Who help them most help most ourselves. 
And thus, perhaps, it is that God 
Gives darkness which is light 
To those with eyes 
Who lack, the inner sight. 
—W. j. Hampton in New York Sun. 
The daily papers recently referred 
rather humorously to a new disease re¬ 
corded in the New York Medical Journal , 
described as peanut bronchitis. This was 
caused by the inspiration of fragments of 
peanut into the respiratory tract. Any¬ 
one who has choked while eating some 
dry substance will know what is meant 
by this, though fortunately such choking 
does not always draw the fragments in 
deeply enough to cause lasting irritation. 
There are, however, worse things than 
peanuts as a cause of choking; in one 
case under observation a child coughed 
while holding in her mouth a twig of 
prickly evergreen (Retinispora I. and drew 
a scrap of this into the respiratory tract. 
Only prompt treatment by a doctor pre¬ 
vented the choking from being fatal, and 
careful nursing was required until the 
lacerated tissues were healed. The doc¬ 
tor feared pneumonia in this case. It is 
wise to warn children as to the danger 
that may result from putting any sort of 
oddments in the mouth. 
In commenting on the prejudice shown 
against children on the part of employ¬ 
ers, landlords, etc., we would do well to 
remember that in most cases this is not 
the result of an unnatural dislike to all 
children, but of experience with those 
spoiled and undisciplined. In a recent 
case coming within our observation, a 
neighbor’s boys, after insisting upon run¬ 
ning all over the lawn and shrubberies of 
a garden-loving suburbanite. finally 
hacked to pieces a choice young tree with 
a hatchet. The owner complained, and 
the boys’ mother said she really couldn’t 
control her sons—boys of 10 or 12 years. 
The owner of the property destroyed was 
looked upon as a troublesome neighbor 
because ha thus complained of the boys’ 
amusements. In many city apartments 
the landlords would have no objection to 
well-behaved children, but after a little 
experience with parents who permit their, 
offspring to destroy property and annoy 
their unhappy neighbors, they naturally 
discriminate in favor of adults. There is 
little doubt that many employers who 
seem prejudiced against he'p with young 
children have suffered in the same way, 
and thus give an appearance of prejudice 
against children in general. It is easy for 
a too-partial parent to think a child 
“smart” when an outsider would apply a 
harsher term. We have heard of a young 
soldier, returning from camp after his first 
real experience of order and obedience. lie 
heard his father bribing his little brother 
to do some regular chore, saw his mother 
give in to a spoiled schoolgirl sister, and 
the whole family give up their plans for 
Vhe RURAL. NEW. YORKER 
the evening because the brother in high 
school demanded it, and the young fellow 
in olive drab remarked with disgust: 
“Father, the discipline of this family is 
absolutely rotten!” When children re¬ 
ceive little discipline at school, and none 
at home, it is not surprising if the unin¬ 
terested outsider regards their wilfulness 
less kindly than their parents. Children 
taught to respect the rights of others, and 
to be obedient and orderly, will always 
make friends, and the best way to re¬ 
move prejudice and discrimination against 
children in general is to train up one’s 
own in the way they should go. 
Utilizing the Cracklings 
Many of my neighbors use all the crack¬ 
lings from lard-making for making soap, 
but this is, to me at least, a wasteful 
method, as it is easy to utilize the nice 
fresh brown cracklings in many ways that 
are appetizing and economical. Crack- 
The Rural Patterns 
In ordering always give number of pattern 
and size desired, sending price with order 
9742. Tucked Slip- 
mbu.se. 114 t.i 40 
bast. Price 19 ceuts. 
9743. Blouse with 
Loose Rack Panels, 
34 to 42 bust. 
9738. Two - piece 
Skirt, 24 to 34 
waist. Price of 
each, 15 cents. 
li 
B7 J£ 
9608. Khnona Blouse 
with Over Bodice, 
16 and 18 years. 
9745. Skirt for Miss¬ 
es and Small W. in 
en. 16 and 18 years. 
Price of each 15 
cents. 
9726. Eton Coat, 34 
to 42 bust. 
9725. Four - Gore 
Skirt, 24 to 34 
waist. Price of each 
pattern. 15 cents. 
lings, properly prepared, will take the 
place of meat in the preparation and sea¬ 
soning of many dishes and also in some 
breadmaking. Prepare cracklings for cook¬ 
ing as follows: Remove all skins when 
preparing the lard for cooking: when 
removed from the kettle run through 
food chopper and pack in jars, cov¬ 
ering with one inch of melted lard. 
Prepared thus the cracklings will be 
found excellent for seasoning all kinds 
of vegetables in which meat is used, such 
as shell beans, potato stews, boiled greens 
and cabbage, and for shortening in bis¬ 
cuits and eornbread these are fine. Then 
there is tin' pork cake and gingerbread, 
v.’tpeh is excellent made with cracklings. 
We find that a generous .seasoning of these 
“pressed” cracklings gives a most delic¬ 
ious. meaty flavor to any vegetable where 
such is desirable. Then they are used for 
other purposes, and every housekeeper 
will find ways of utilizing this, valuable 
by-product, especially when meat prices 
are so high as to be almost prohibitive in 
mauy homes. lily reed York. 
Seen in New York Shops 
Petti-bloomers are offered as a substi¬ 
tute for petticoats with narrow skirts; 
they come in ankle length. Imt can be 
worn knee length if desired. In fine 
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