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March 1, 1910 
WOMAN AND HOME 
From Day to Day 
The Holy of Holies 
“Elder father, tho’ thine eyes 
Shine with hoary mysteries. 
Canst thou tell what in the heart 
Of a cowslip blosson. lies? 
“Smaller than all lives that ho. 
Secret as the deepest sea, 
Stands a little house of seeds, 
Like an elfin’s granary. 
“Speller of the stones and weeds, 
Skilled in Nature’s crafts and creeds, 
Tell me what is in the heart 
Of the smallest of the seeds? 
“God Almighty, and with Him 
Cherubim and Seraphim, 
Filling all Eternity— 
Adonai Elohim.” 
—G. K. Chesterton, in “The Wild 
Knight and Other Poems.” 
We are again asked to give recipe for 
“best-ever lemon pie.” Beat together one 
cup sugar, one level tablespoonful flour, 
juice and grated rind of one lemon, and 
the yolks of three eggs. Just before it 
is put in the crust stir in one and one- 
fourth cup of sweet milk. Bake care¬ 
fully. but not too long, then cover with 
a meringue made by beating the whites 
of the eggs stiff, and stirring in one-third 
cup of sugar. All who have used this 
recipe say it is unfailing, and much easier 
to make than a pie with a boiled filling 
thickened with cornstarch. It is easier, 
too. to wash a bowl in which this un¬ 
cooked filling has been stirred up than a 
sticky double boiler—and even such a 
small economy of effort as this is worth 
considering. 
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It is interesting to find that many silk 
fabrics for the trousseau of Princess 
Patricia of Connaught have been supplied 
by American looms. The court dress¬ 
maker entrusted with the work came 
here to see the fabrics, and bought 
largely, especially, it was said, of printed 
silks. Rose was the leading color, and 
it is said that some rose silks were also 
purchased for Princess Mary, and orders 
given for special weaves in other silks. 
France and Great Britain have been too 
busy in other ways to design many new 
silks of late, while this country has been 
in a position to make wonderful progress. 
It is perhaps the first time a royal prin¬ 
cess has sent to this country for part of 
her wedding outfit, just as it. is the first 
time for a British princess to drop her 
title and marry, with the sovereign’s 
hearty approval, a man who has no title 
of any sort, except the courtesy prefix of 
honorable. 
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We have been flooded with letters re¬ 
garding' “Barbara” and her problem, some 
of these opinions being printed last week. 
A number have written offering farm or 
household work. This, however, is not 
the point; Barbara finds that she can 
obtain employment in various lines, but 
wants advice especially on the attitude 
she should take towards home duties. If 
she wished to do housework for a living 
she would find it very easy to secure a 
town or city position at high wages. 
Family life and affection cannot be mea¬ 
sured by money—they are beyond price— 
but we believe that every girl should 
learn some vocation by which she can 
support herself, and that there is injus¬ 
tice in the attitude that takes a daugh¬ 
ter’s unpaid labor as a right and doles 
out the price of necessities as a gift, and 
not as payment for the work of her hands. 
This is the point that exercises Barbara. 
Seen in New York Shops 
Aluminum frying-pans, with renewable 
wood handles, cost $1.65. Double boilers 
of aluminum, two-quart capacity, are 
$2 25. Heavy cast aluminum griddles, 
nine-inch," are $3. but were recently seen 
in a sale for $1.95. 
Costume waists are handsome styles 
to wear with a jacket suit, giving a cos¬ 
tume effect. Styles recently noted in¬ 
cluded Georgette', drop-stitch voile, tri- 
colette and embroidered crepe de chine. 
Among the styles are button-back and 
slip-on models, peasant, surplice and tab- 
lier. the colors being buttercup, sunset, 
orchid, cloud blue, victory red. flesh or 
white. They cost all the way from $7.50 
to $69.50. 
Petticoats with fitted elastic tops and 
deep flounces in plaid cotton taffeta were 
noted recently for $1. in “princess cloth.” 
black, white and colors for $1.95. At 
The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
$2.95 are some pretty styles with plaid 
silk flounces and a top of some special 
cotton fabric. 
Boys’ middy suits in tan linen with 
Belgian blue collar and cuffs were seen 
for $4.90, sizes three to 10. 
Some Bulbs I Have Known 
Last Summer I used to call upon a 
family of the old-fashioned Amaryllis 
purpurea which lived in a milk pan upon 
my neighbor's west veranda, or else upon 
a low stand nearby it. Ordinarily I went 
in by an cast door, but for a week or 
two in late August it was worth while 
to go around the house to see how the 
Amaryllis was coming on. First it was 
to count the buds. The number went up 
above 50. Then came on the increasing 
glory of the scarlet blossoms, and this 
lasted long enough to make the Amaryllis 
season on my neighbor’s veranda a very 
pleasant picture in my memory. A 
“glory” of blossoms in an old rusty milk 
pan ! Yes, that was the way they looked 
to me. Yet scarcely any care had gone 
to the production of the gay show. _ My 
neighbor said that she never enriched 
them, repotted, nor fussed over them. 
They went into the cellar in Winter, 
came out in Spring, got much of their 
watering from the rain and just took care 
of themselves. She had the pink fairy 
lilies. Zephyranthes, growing in crowded 
possession of an old jardiniere and doing 
equally well. But I know my neighbor 
for a stay-at-home woman, and believe 
that when rains were too drenching super¬ 
fluous water was turned off, while at 
other times a reasonable supply of water 
was never lacking. 
Another proof of the value to plants 
of slight but never-failing attention came 
in February of this year, when four pots 
of Johnsonii maryIIis were unfolding 
their beautiful red trumpets. All last 
Summer their owner was kept at home 
and she saw these pots of bulbs every 
day. After various trials of available 
places they had been put on a sbelf two 
feet from the ground, and against a board 
fence, where they had sunshine half the 
forenoon. They had good drainage, hut 
never once became dried out. During 
the last week in January the thin leafless 
bulbs, in a dark part of the cellar, began 
showing the blunt tips of buds. The four 
pots were brought to a sunny kitchen 
window, and the morning’s pleasure of 
looking for buds began. One larger bulb 
in a 5-in. pot made two. Some bulbs 
were small and did not bloom. Perhaps 
the whole count of 10 blossoms was not 
a very grand showing, many can tell of 
greater success, but this season’s output 
from these four pots was quite in con¬ 
trast to anything they had done for sev¬ 
eral seasons past. In fact their owner 
had declared her luck lost and had 
threatened sending her Johnsonii to a 
friend in Florida where they could be 
planted in the open and prove if they 
were worth having there. But until last 
Rummer she had been often away from 
home and the potted bulbs had depended 
upon rains and occasional weeks of good 
care. Years ago she had decided that for 
her it was best to disturb the bulbs as 
little as possible. 
In a fifth pot alongside these Johnsonii 
were some of the yellowish red Amaryllis. 
These had been kept five years without 
once blossoming. This year they made 
two stalks of bloom in February. An¬ 
other reward for the stay-at-home lady! 
A fine, large bulb of Amaryllis Formos- 
issima bought the year before had the 
same care, grew well, but has shown no 
flowers. A neighbor says that this is a 
Summer bloomer, that she takes her bulbs 
to the country with her each June, plants 
them in the garden border, and they are 
soon in flower. 
When a gift of Paper White Narcissus 
came to us at Christmas we were re. 
minded of a fine potful we had seen in 
bloom when calling two weeks before. 
The grower of these had told us that she 
kept the bulbs three weeks in a cool, 
dark place after planting, and before 
bringing into the light. Ro we treated 
our Christmas bulbs in the same way. 
They bloomed well, coming into flower 
the last week in January, but other bulbs 
which friends kept but a week in the 
dark did quite as well. These Christmas 
bulbs were grown in water, but as the 
quantity of pebbles sent was not suffi¬ 
cient to hold them erect we added some 
sphagnum moss, which served the purpose 
quite as well. I mean to dry some pretty 
green moss this year to use about my 
Paper Whites. prudence primrose. 
A Housekeeper’s Kitchen Garden 
There is so much pleasure as well as 
profit to be found in gardening that I 
often wonder why more farmers’ wives 
do not take over the garden as their 
especial charge. Of course most women 
on the farm have more than enough to do, 
but it is not usually work which takes 
them out in the open air and the sun¬ 
shine. so I think that sometimes some of 
the housework might be sacrificed in the 
interest of the garden. We all know that 
the reward for our labor is pretty sure 
if we only stay by the garden throughout 
the season, but I am pretty sure that a 
great many fail to see much pleasure in 
it. Who does not find pleasure in watch¬ 
ing the tiny plants break through the 
soil, and grow tall and thrifty? How 
lovely a long row of pale green feathery 
carrot plants look, and the tender j een 
of a row of thrifty lettuce is a constant 
delight. Do not give the garden tip to 
vegetables entirely, but save a corner for 
flowers, for we need their cheer just as 
much as we nee.l the more material 
things which the garden will yield. You 
will be surprised at the bird acquaint¬ 
ances which you can make while about 
your garden work. The oriole singing 
in the old apple tree in the corner of the 
garden has lightened many hours of toil. 
The little wrens go about their home¬ 
making unmindful of our presence, but 
we always stop to listen to their song, 
it is the very essence of happiness and 
good cheer. 
This is an account of a garden planted 
and cared for by a farmer’s wife and 
two children. The garden is about 120 
feet long by 50 feet wide, fairly fertile, 
but badly infested by quack grass, the 
most persistent weed in existence. I 
firmly believe. After the good man had 
plowed and dragged the garden, small 
sou planted two rows of pop corn and 
a row of sunflowers. These were under 
his especial care all Rummer and thrived 
immensely. Daughter had a bed of pan¬ 
sies, a short row of sweet peas, a long 
row of garden beans and a small corner 
where plants were transplanted from the 
lettuce and radish and beet rows when 
it came time to thin them out. 
A strip about six feet wide the whole 
length of the garden was raked over and 
well pulverized, plenty of fertilizer was 
worked in and the following seeds were 
sown in long rows about 15 inches apart: 
Early curled lettuce: Icicle and Rcarlet 
radishes; Crimson Globe and Crosby’s 
Egyptian beets: Long Orange carrots, 
parsnips and rutabagas. In the re¬ 
mainder of the garden were planted two 
rows Golden Bantam sweet corn, one row 
American Champion peas. 12 hills cucum¬ 
bers. four rows butter beaus. Summer 
squash and pie pumpkins were put in 
with the corn and beans. Rixty cab¬ 
bages were set out May 30 and 30 Ear- 
liana tomato plants about the 10th of 
June. Late in June a second sowing of 
radishes and beets wa. made where the 
parsnips failed to come up. Reeds sown 
so late in the season need extra care, the 
ground dries out so quickly. We laid 
long strips of boards over the rows to 
prevent this, and took them off as soon 
as the plant broke through the ground, 
and they all came up nicely. 
The long narrow rows of beets, rad¬ 
ishes. lettuce, carrots and turnips we cul¬ 
tivated with the hand cultivator; it was 
more like play than work to run the 
cultivator down th: long rows. Using 
the cultivator every two or throe days 
kept the soil in good condition and the 
weeds did not give us much trouble here, 
but in the beans and corn and among the 
plants where we used the horse cultivator 
the quack grass came near getting the 
better o l us, and although we hoed and 
weeded by hand it was not entirely sub¬ 
dued. 
I made a mistake in not giving the 
rutabagas more room: when full grown 
they cover quite a little ground and I 
had to trim off some of the leaves to keep 
them from shading the beets too much. 
The squash plants soon outgrew the 
beans, and shaded some of the plants too 
much. This year they are going in a 
corner by themselves. I planted three 
varieties of cucumbers, and one kind 
yielded much better than the others, but 
I could not tell which kind it was. so 
this year at planting time I am going 
to make note of each variety and of their 
place in the garden, and this will help 
me to find out which varieties are best 
adapted to my garden. 
The Icicle radishes were fine, the Rcar¬ 
let did not do quite so well. I had let¬ 
tuce enough to supply myself and some 
of the neighbors. I took out six buckets 
full of young beets for greens, canned 12 
quarts of beets while they were small and 
tender, and stored one bushel in the cellar 
for Winter use. 1 had what sweet corn 
I wanted to use and canned four quarts; 
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