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The RURAL. NEW-YORKER 
March 8, 1919 
WOMAN AND HOME 
From Day to Day 
Wanderlust 
Beyond the East the sunrise, beyond the 
West the sea. 
And East and West the wanderlust that 
will not let me be: 
It works in me like madness, dear, to bid 
me say good-by! 
I know not where the white road runs, 
nor what the blue hills are. 
But man can have the sun for frieud, and 
for his guide a star; 
And there’s no end of voyaging when 
once the voice is heard. 
For the river calls and the road calls, and 
oh, the call of a bird! 
Yonder the long horizon lies, and there by 
night and day 
The old ships draw to home again, the 
young ships sail away ; 
And .come I may, but go I must, and if 
men ask you why. 
You may put the blame on the stars and 
the sun and the white road and the 
sky. 
-GERALD GOULD. 
* 
Oxe of our friends tells us that she al¬ 
ways cleans a dusty black straw hat with 
olive oil. A soft bit of flannel or other 
smooth woolen goods i.s moistened with 
the oil, and rubbed over carefully. It 
takes out dust and renews luster and if 
used discreetly the hat is not made greasy 
by this fine oil. Most of the coloring pre¬ 
parations for renewing straw hats make 
the straw very dry and brittle, destroying 
the flexibility of a fine straw, and the oil 
is free from this objection. 
* 
Tiie Massachusetts Agricultural Col¬ 
lege has sent out Extension Bulletin No. 
24, “The Home Manufacture of Fruit 
Products,” by W. W. Chenoweth. which 
contains some useful recipes for jam. 
jelly and fruit butter. One of the recipes 
is for cider jelly, which is not now so 
well known, we think, as in the days when 
cane sugar was less used on the farm. 
This jelly is made without sugar, by boil¬ 
ing down sweet cider until it reaches the 
jellying point. This generally means re¬ 
ducing the volume in the ratio of 7:1. 
Cider jelly of superior quality is made by 
mixing the cider from sweet and acid 
apples in equal proportion. This is not 
as sour as the jelly made from acid ap¬ 
ples alone. It is quite likely that this 
old-fashioned cider jelly would be readily 
salable, where a farmer delivers produce 
to private customers. 
* 
Tiie many housekeepers who like to in¬ 
clude a little painting and paper-hanging 
with their Spring cleaning will find all 
paint materials extravagantly high-priced 
this season. It will be economy to wait 
awhile, where possible, on the chance of 
reductions by another season. Really, 
everything the housekeeper depends upon 
to brighten up the house at cleaning time 
is excessively high in price. The dye 
kettle will do a great deal to circumvent 
high prices of curtains, draperies and 
cushion covers. Washed-out scrim cur¬ 
tains usually take yellow dye especially 
well, and will then give a sunny look to a 
north or east toodi that is especially 
pleasing. 
* 
Women often feel rather afraid of 
pruning their garden roses sufficiently, 
and yet a certain amount of cutting is 
necessary to produce good flowers. In the 
latitude of New York, March is a good 
time to prune Hybrid Remontants; they 
are pruned while dormant in late W inter 
or early Spring. It is better not to 
prune Teas and Hybrid Teas until the 
buds begin to swell, leaving the mulch un¬ 
disturbed until settled weather. As a 
general rule, weak-growing roses may be 
pruned more severely than strong-grow¬ 
ing sorts. In pruning, the removal of 
dead, weak or superfluous shoots or canes 
must be first considered: then the cutting 
back of long shoots. The books tell us to 
prune different varieties hard, moderately 
hard, medium or sparingly. Cornell de¬ 
scribes hard pruning as thinning out all 
but three to five shoots, pruning these so 
as to leave two or three buds on each 
shoot. Moderately hard •pruning means 
removing all but three to five canes, cut¬ 
ting these back to five to 10 buds. Me¬ 
dium pruning means to leave four to seven 
canes, which are cut back half their 
length. Even this sometimes seems severe 
to the inexperienced. Sparing pruning 
consists in leaving four to seven canes, 
and only cutting off their tips. We are 
always told that climbing roses need very 
little pruning beyond the cutting out of 
dead wood, or the removal, every two or 
three years, of old canes that are no 
longer of use. In our own garden, how¬ 
ever, such roses as Dorothy Perkins re¬ 
quire some cutting every year, or they be¬ 
come unmanageable. The generous gar¬ 
dener who cuts quantities of bloom from 
climbing roses is usually well repaid by 
the growth made: indeed, cutting roses, 
rather than letting them wither on the 
plants, gives very good returns, for this 
moderate pruning makes new growth, and 
in manv Hybrid Remontants, induces the 
The Rural Patterns 
In ordering always give number of pattern 
and size desired, sending price with order 
9734 
sriOA 
9784 — Gathered 
Cape with surplice 
nr muffler collar, one 
size. 
97I0A — Conserva¬ 
tion Dress or Slip. 
34 to 44 bust. Price 
15 cents for each. 
9091 — Kimono 
Blouse, with Over 
Boluse, 34 to 42 
bust. 
9088 — Two-piece 
Skirt with four-panel 
tunic, 24 to 32 waist. 
Price 10 cents for 
each. 
9481 — Oue-piece 
Dress, 34 to 42 bust. 
Price 15 cents. 
9729—Dress with 
two-piece skirt. 30 
to 44 bust. Price 15 
cents. 
formation of Autumn flowers. The open- 
handed gardener is usually the successful 
one in every line. 
At the Price of Two Eggs 
At the cost of the price of two eggs a big Jell-0 dessert can be 
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the manner in which it is prepared. 
If plain, it will serve five or six persons; if whipped, Bavarian 
cream style, ten or twelve may be served. 
There are so many possibilities—so great a variety of delight¬ 
ful dishes that seem to appear almost as if by magic, without cook¬ 
ing or fussing—that every farmer’s wife is urged to send her name 
and address in order that she may receive (free) a copy of the 
Jell-0 Book, which has everything on the subject that any woman 
could wish. Among other things it tells how whipped Jell-0 takes 
the place of eggs and cream in desserts. 
Jell-0 is put up in six pure fruit flavors: Strawberry, Rasp¬ 
berry, Lemon, Orange, Cherry, Chocolate, and sold in all general 
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cents • 
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