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June 14, 1919 
970 
<Ibe RURAL NEW-YORKER 
WOMAN AND HOME 
From Day to Day 
America for Me 
’Tis fine to see tlie Old World and travel 
up and down. 
Among the famous palaces and cities of 
renown ; 
To admire the crumbly castles and the 
statues of the kings. 
But now I think I’ve had enough of anti¬ 
quated things. 
So it’s home again and home again, 
America for me! 
My heart is turning home again and 
there I long to be. 
In the land of youth and freedom, beyond 
the ocean bars. 
Where the air is full of sunlight, and the 
flag is full of stars. 
Oh, London is a man’s town, there's 
power in the air: 
And Paris is a woman’s town, with 
flowers in her hair: 
And it’s sweet to dream of Venice, and 
great to study Rome. 
But when it comes to living there is no 
place like home. 
* # * ❖ ♦ 
I know that Europe’s wonderful, yet 
something seems to lack: 
The past is too much with her, and the 
people looking back. 
But the glory of the Present is to make 
the Future free— 
We love our land for what she is and 
what she is to be. 
Oh, it’s home again, and home again, 
America for me ! 
I want a ship that’s westward bound to 
plow through rolling sea. 
To the blessed land of Room Enough, 
beyond the ocean bars. 
Where the air is full of sunlight, and the 
flag is full of stars. 
■—Henry Van Dyke. 
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A cheap filler for floor cracks, which 
can be varnished if desired, is made by 
mixing a thick paste in proportions of 
about one-half pound flour, three pints 
of water and three teaspoonfuls alum. 
Mix thoroughly and boil until smooth. 
Then mix with the paste enough torn up 
newspaper to make, a putty-like mixture. 
Fill the cracks tightly and the putty will 
soon harden. 
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Strawberries, raspberries or black¬ 
berries are very nice served with molded 
tapioca prepared as follows: Heat one 
pint of milk in a doplde boiler, stir in 
t\yo tablespoonfuls sugar and three level 
tablespoon fills of tapfhca. Cook for 15 
minutes, and then flavJf with a teaspoon¬ 
ful of vanilla ; turn iiito a bowl to cool. 
Whip one-half part of cream, and fold 
into the tapioca. Chill in icebox or other 
cold place, then ornament with fresh ber¬ 
ries before serving. 
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The Department of Agriculture at 
Washington is sending experts in home 
canning to France, at the request of the 
French Minister of Agriculture. This 
mission, which is financed by the Amer¬ 
ican Commission for Devastated France, 
will visit French agricultural schools and 
colleges, giving a three-days’ canning de¬ 
monstration at each for the benefit of 
domestic science teachers. American 
systems of home canning seem little 
known in Europe, though Great Britain 
has shown interest in our methods for 
some years past. The British house¬ 
keeper has, in the past, specialized in 
jam or preserve, rather than canned 
fruit such as American housewives put 
up so lavishly, and has done very little 
if anything in canning vegetables. We 
think that in the United States more 
vegetables will be canned at home this 
year than ever before, especially string 
beans and tomatoes. 
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A GREAT many readers expressed their 
interest, a few months ago, in the case of 
the farm girl who had found a “war 
job” in driving a delivery wagon, and who 
felt uncertain as to whether she should 
continue doing this work. Like many 
other things affecting farm life, the whole 
question came down to the financial re¬ 
turn for labor given. The girl was happy 
in home work, but saw no future in it. A 
good many advisers urged her to give up 
her job with the laundry wagon to some 
young man, and seek a place doing house¬ 
work instead. That advice really missed 
the point of the inquiry, for if she went 
away to do housework she would leave 
home, whereas the laundry wagon gave 
her a little time with her mother and 
sisters. The old idea, coming down from 
the patriarchal period, that the women of 
the family were dependents, who must 
give their labor without stint, and with¬ 
out pay, is now past; the Great War has 
blown away its last lingering shreds. Be¬ 
cause the farm gives opportunity for mu¬ 
tual family work, the unpaid work of 
women and children has lingered here 
longer than in other occupations. Any 
good and affectionate daughter is quite 
ready to give work to her parents for love, 
but she certainly should not give it to a 
rapacious middleman. So we think that 
the idea of providing farm daughter, as 
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Water Crackers 
well as farm son, with payment for labor, 
will improve the status of the farm. It 
is the experience of all labor that a bet¬ 
ter money reward improves the economic 
condition of any trade, and farming is 
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Can you give recipe for making water 
crackers, or their substitutes, as we use a 
great many of them in soups, asparagus, 
fillings, etc.? MRS. M. G. B. 
The following Southern recipe for 
water crackers is given in Marion Har- 
land’s “Complete Cook Book”: Into a 
half pound of flour rub a tablespoonful of 
butter, a little salt, and add enough cold 
water to make a dough that can be rolled 
out. Roll very thin, cut out, and roll 
again. Bake in a floured tin to u pale 
brown. 
Substitutes for Gelatin 
The following suggestions are offered to 
Mrs. A. .7. S., New York, to help her out 
of her gelatin troubles: First, if she will 
use agar agar or Ceylon moss as a substi¬ 
tute for gelatin I am sure she will he 
pleased with the results. This moss is 
much used in China and the East Indies 
as an article of food. It is, however, little 
known in our country, only in a medicinal 
way. It is a wonderful substitute for 
commercial gelatin, as it is much less ex- 
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