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The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
From Day to Day 
A Song of the Plains 
IS'n harp have I for the singing nor fin¬ 
gers fashioned for skill. 
Nor ever shall words express it, the 
song that is in my heart, 
A saga, swept from the distance, horizons 
beyond the hill, 
Singing of life and endurance, and bid¬ 
ding me bear my part. 
For this is song, as I sing it, the song that 
T love the best, 
The’ steady tramp in the furrow, the 
grind of the gleaming steel, 
An anthem sung to the noonday, a chant 
of the open West, 
Echoing deep, in my spirit, to gladden 
and help and heal. 
And this is life, as I read it, and life, in 
its fairest form 
To breathe the wind on the ranges, the 
scent of the upturned sod. 
To strive, and strive, and be thankful, to 
weather the shine and storm. 
Penciling, over the prairies, the destiny 
planned by God. 
And no reward do T ask for, save only to 
work and wait 
To praise the God of my fathers, to 
labor beneath His sky. 
To dwell alone in ITis greatness, to strike 
and to follow straight, 
Silent and strong, and contented—the 
limitless plains and I. 
•—IT. IT. PASH POST) 
in Londou Spectator. 
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Here is the Philadelphia Record's 
recipe for doughboy pudding: Cook one 
pint milk and one-tliird cup cornmeal to¬ 
gether 15 minutes with one-half teaspoon 
salt and three tablespoons sugar. When 
cool add two teaspoons baking powder, 
two well-beaten eggs, grated nutmeg and 
one-half cup seeded raisins. Bake in 
greased cups. 
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The following is a good idea to ice a 
cake evenly, and prevent the icing from 
running down the sides: Double a piece 
of still' paper and pin it closely around the 
cake, letting the paper extend about an 
inch above the top. Spread the icing, 
and do not remove the paper until it is 
set. 
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Many of our farm communities are 
now happy over the return of their young 
men from overseas. From time immem¬ 
orial the return of young men from the 
ware has brought new ideas and new cus¬ 
toms. as well as new problems. The cru¬ 
saders of the middle ages brought back 
new luxuries, they opened new lines of 
trade, and they brought new plants and 
fruits and domestic comforts that worked 
towards progress in material and intel¬ 
lectual things. We ft ok for similar 
changes from the return of our crusaders, 
with their healthy bodies and broadened 
minds. What do our farm women think 
about it? What has the son or brother or 
husband brought back from his military 
experience? There is one very evident 
feeling voiced by them all. and that is 
that the American womayi is the very 
finest in the world. 
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A xtm her of recent inquiries ad¬ 
dressed to correspondents of this depart¬ 
ment have been anonymous, or merely 
signed with initials. Most of them were 
questions that could be easily answered 
b,v mail, had full address been given, and 
many of them were too personal to 1 ; 
printed. We are very glad to answer all 
questions within our power, but all in¬ 
quirers should give full name and ad¬ 
dress. not for publication, but as a guar¬ 
antee of good faith. The It. N.-Y., in 
common with all responsible publications, 
dues not acknowledge anonymous commu¬ 
nications. 
Yakiovs forms of flummery or starch 
jelly will be found delicious warm weather 
desserts. < >ur favorite is strawberry 
flummery, made by cooking the berries 
lightly in well-sweetened juice as for or¬ 
dinary sauce or stewed fruit, then thick¬ 
ening it with cornstarch like blanc mange. 
Strawberries, blackberries, raspberries, 
gooseberries, currants and rhubarb all 
make nice flummery. Served with plain 
or whipped cream they are delicious, and 
such desserts will usually appeal to Sum¬ 
mer boarders, and are less trouble than 
pastry. A very good raspberry flummery 
is also made with tapioca as follows: 
Soak a cup of pearl tapioca in two cups 
of cull water for several hours, then put 
in double boiler and cook clear. Sweeten 
to taste (about half a cup of sugar), let 
it cool and then stir in a quart of red 
raspberries, washed and drained. Turn 
into a mold and set in a cold place; serve 
with cream and sugar. All flummeries 
look attractive when put in individual 
molds. 
Notes from the Illinois Corn Belt 
My friends warned me, while I was 
building my bungalow three years ago 
last Fall, that I had been in town too long 
to make an enjoyable return to the farm. 
They were sure that there would not be 
enough excitement in the country to hold 
me there. I will confess that in some re¬ 
spects town life had made country life a 
trifle more difficult for me than if I had 
always remained in the country. But as 
to there being any lack of excitement, my 
friends were very much mistaken. Liter¬ 
ary contests and field-day races are tame 
in comparison with the excitement and 
zest which almost daily attended the 
races that the farmer and his family make 
against rain and weeds. A person may 
work hard for his society or school, but 
he will work still harder for his bread 
aud butter. 
I have just come in from running a race 
with some rain clouds that I thought 
were coming this way very soon. I have 
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waist. Price 13 cents for each, 
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Price 15 cents. 15 cents. 
often worked very hard in playing a bas¬ 
ket-ball game; but that was nothing in 
comparison to the way I hustled when I 
put in peas, lettuce, radish, beet, beau, 
celery, cabbage, Swiss chard and cucum¬ 
ber seed this morning. In the field just 
north of the house I can see my husband 
and his married hired man running their 
race with the rain clouds. About 15 
acres of the large field are ready for 
planting corn. If they cannot get that 
part plowed before it rains, they will have 
much extra work on hand getting it in 
shape again. All day yesterday the har¬ 
row followed the disk over the ground. 
Every foot of that 15 acres is in excellent 
condition. Does the city man think there 
is no excitement in the country? Let him 
but watch the men run to move 1 he check 
wire, and hear the steady click, click as 
the planter hastens across tlx* field. As 
my husband left the house this morning In* 
remarked: “My back will be about broke 
by the time I get all the corn in. Setting 
those stakes in this hard-baked ground is 
terrible.” I haven’t the slightest doubt 
of it, although lie is stronger than most 
men, for the sun came out boiling hot 
after our last downpour, and baked a 
hard crust. 1 found that out when l was 
hoeing the peas, lettuce and radishes in 
the garden. 
Yesterday the excitement centered 
around our married hired man’s little five- 
year-old boy. Bright as a tack, the hoy 
is good-looking and growing like a little 
weed, and yet, would you believe it. there 
does not seem to be anywhere for the poor 
child to exist except on the quarter-of-a- 
mile lane that connects the tenant house 
and our bungalow. lie is the only child 
at home at present. 11 is mother is a 
nervous, liard-workiug woman, who does 
not like the noise he makes, and does not 
want to be bothered with him, so she 
ships him off up here. Now, if I did not 
have three children of my own to rear, 
besides the housework and the gardening. 
I know of no better use that I could 
make of my time than trying to train that 
five-year-old boy in the way he should go. 
But there is a limit to the number of 
things that one woman can do. especially I 
if she is rather frail, so I say to my hus¬ 
band that I have not the time to look 
after that boy. 
After the boy leaves the gate of some 
yarded chickens open, and later chases a 
hunch of little pigs down the north lane 
and out on to the main road, my husband 
and the married hired man order the five- 
year-old to stay down home where his 
mother can look after him. Evidently liis 
reception down home is not very good, for 
in a few minutes he is wandering up the 
lane towards our bungalow. Poor little 
fellow; there he stands in the lane, watch¬ 
ing the men and horses as they move back 
and forth over the field. lie does not 
dare go home, and since his latest pranks 
he knows he must not come into our barn¬ 
yard without his father or mother are 
with him. 
Of course a child that young should not 
be allowed to run wild, and, as I see it, 
it is his mother’s place to take care of 
him. But how are we to develop in her a 
sense of her great responsibility? The 
mother is not much worse than the father. 
You can always tell where the father is 
by listening a moment; he keeps up a 
continuous stream of words, which sound 
better if you are at a distance. This is 
not the only neglected child in the world, 
of course, but it is the latest example I 
have happened upon. In town we would 
send him to one of the fine public play¬ 
grounds, but in the country, what is to 
be done when a married hired man and 
his wife do not care enough for their own 
five-year-old boy to take proper care of 
him ? 
Do not tell me there is no excitement 
on a farm! I never was so excited in 
my life as that Summer morning that I 
helped clean the tenant house. The fam¬ 
ily that had moved in recently had grown 
so accustomed to living with bedbugs that 
they thought nothing of the matter, aud 
took no means of ridding themselves of 
the pest. We could not tolerate bedbugs 
in a house belonging to us. so I took a 
small drugstore down with me to the ten¬ 
ant house and pretended that T thought 
the hired man's wife would be glad of my 
assistance. If I had for one moment let 
on that I saw the woman’s flashing eyes 
she would have put me out of the house. 
1 worked like ligutniug and finished my 
job bef re the storm broke. I was not 
surprised to hear later how angry she 
was because I made her clean up.’ But 
never an angry word did she say to me. 
We were always very courteous to each 
other. However, in her heart, she hated 
me; and in my heart I pitied and despised 
her for being so extremely shiftless. 
The old black crow from the timber is 
heading for our chicken coops; I must 
hasten out to see whether our three 
hideous scarecrows are going to serve 
their purpose. 
1*. S.-—My old straw hat and my hus¬ 
band’s old torn coat, waving its arms in 
tin' air, were too much for Mr. Crow— 
he has gone to visit our neighbor’s chicken 
coops. L. C. E. 
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