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WOMAN AND HOME 
From Day to Day 
The Blue and the Gray 
By the flow of the inland river, 
'Whence the fleets of iron have fled, 
Where the blades of the grass-grave 
quiver, 
Asleep are the ranks of the dead. 
Under the sod and the dew, 
Waiting the Judgment Day; 
Under the one, the Blue ; 
Under the other, the Gray. 
These in the robings of glory, 
Those in the gloom of defeat, 
All with the battle-blood gory, 
In the dusk of eternity meet. 
Under the sod and the dew. 
Waiting the Judgment Day; 
Under the laurel, the Blue; 
Under the willow, the Gray. 
From the silence of sorrowful hours 
The desolate mourners go, 
Lovingly laden with flowers, 
Alike for the friend and the foe; 
Under the sod and the dew, 
Waiting the Judgment Day; 
Under the roses, the Blue; 
Under the lilies, the Gray. 
So, with an equal splendor 
The morning sun rays fall, 
With a touch impartially tender, 
On the. blossoms blooming for all. 
Under the sod and the dew, 
Waiting the Judgment Day, 
Broidered with gold, the Blue; 
Wet with rain, the Gray. 
Sadly, but not with upbraiding, 
The generous deed was done. 
In the storms of the years that are fading 
No braver battle was won. 
Under the sod and the dew, 
Waiting the Judgment Day, 
Under the blossoms, the Blue; 
Under the garlands, the Gray. 
No more shall the war cry sever, 
Or the winding rivers be red; 
They banish our anger forever 
When they laurel the graves of our dead ! 
Under the sod and the dew, 
Waiting the Judgment Day: 
Love and tears for the Blue; 
Tears and love for the Gray. 
—FRANCIS MILES FINCH. 
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A reader in Maine asks for directions 
and drawings showing how to make fur¬ 
niture from old bed frames. She has 
seen ‘ settees, stands, footstools and even 
a dressing table made from one. We 
have seen settees made from old mahog¬ 
any bedsteads that were painted in a 
light color, entirely hiding the handsome 
wood, which we thought a great mistake. 
Old mahogany is too rich in color to be 
covered up in that way. In these the 
foot of the bed was used to form the back 
of the settee. 
Readers are asking us again for that 
method of canning string beans with 
cream of tartar. Wash and cut the beans 
in inch pieces. Add water enough to 
cover, and to each quart of water add oue 
teasp.oouful of cream of tartar. Boil 
20 minutes, and seal in fruit cans. When 
using pour off the water, rinse in fresh 
cold water, and cook like fresh beaus. We 
can our beans according to the cold pack 
method with entire success, but many 
correspondents tell us that they find this 
cream of tartar canning more certain. 
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We receive a surprising number of in¬ 
quiries which would be answered by mail 
but for the fact, that full address is not 
given. Sometimes there are only initials; 
sometimes there is an incomplete address, 
and a letter sent is returned to this office. 
No doubt inquirers are often dissatisfied 
by apparent neglect of their letters, when 
the trouble is with themselves. Be sure 
that you give complete address with every 
inquiry; your name will never he printed 
in the paper without your permission. 
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Lack of social pleasures is one of the 
great reasons for leaving the farm given 
by young people. We all realize that as 
farming becomes better paid, there is 
more possibility of providing pleasure and 
recreation. A recent article in Munsey's 
Magazine tells how the social problem is 
solved in one rural community. Dryden, 
Michigan, has a “Country Club” that be¬ 
longs to the whole community, where 
farmers’ sons and daughters, as well as 
all othei’S, have the pleasant surroundings 
and opportunities for amusement that be¬ 
long to clubs of this kind. This “Country 
Club” was made possible through the gen¬ 
erosity of a leading citizen, Gen. Squier. 
We are told that such community recrea¬ 
Vht RURAL NEW-YORKER 
August 14, 1920 
tion centers have been founded in other 
rural communities in the Middle West, 
and we should like to hear more about 
their formation and methods of main¬ 
tenance^ 
Keeping a Time Budget 
Many housewives keep financial budgets 
nowadays, and experts are only too glad 
to tell us through the medium of maga¬ 
zines and papers just how we should ap- 
E ortion the yearly funds at our command, 
e they large or small or in between. But 
something more recent and less common 
is a time budget. Yet, really, why isn’t 
that just as practical as a financial bud¬ 
get, for most of us know the truth of the 
old saying, “Time is money”? 
When the idea first came to me I pon¬ 
dered over it for a day or two studying 
its possibilities. As the wife of a farmer. 
The Rural Patterns 
In ordering always give number of pattern 
and size desired, sending price with order 
0897. One-piece 
dress with back over 
panel for misses ami 
small women, 1C and 
18 years. The 16- 
year size will re¬ 
quire 4% yds. of 
material 30 in. wide, 
3 a i vds. 44, 3Vi yds. 
r>4, with 1 yd. of 
laee 3V> in. wide for 
neck frill. Width at 
the lower edge is 2 
yds. 20 cents. 
10IJ 
ZOO l 
2011. IC i m o n o 
blouse for misses 
and small women. 
10 and 18 years. 
2002. Accor dion 
plaited skirt fur 
misses and small 
women, 16 nnd 18 
years. The 16-year 
size blouse will re¬ 
quire 1% yds. of 
material 30 in. wide, 
1% yds. 40, 1V4 yds. 
44. The 16-year size 
skirt Will require 
3% yds. of material 
27 or 36 in. wide. 
2% yds. 44 or 54. 
Price of each, 20 
cents. 
9962. House dress 
or apron with cap, 
34 or 30, 38 or 40. 
42 or 44 bust. The 
medium size will re¬ 
quire 3V4 yds. of 
material 36 in, wide, 
3Vi yds. 44, with % 
yd. any width for 
cap. 20 cents. 
2015. Blouse with 
or without applied 
trimming. 34 to 44 
bust. 1061. Design 
for embroidering the 
front nnd cuffs of a 
blouse. Straight 
banding is also giv¬ 
en. The medium size 
will require 2% yds. 
of material 36 in. 
wide, 2*4 yds. 40. 
1V6 yds. 44. Price 
of each 20 cents. 
and with four small children, ranging in 
age from four years to three weeks. I 
surely wanted all the help in time-saving 
obtainable. The result was a classifying 
and summing up of my daily tasks as fol¬ 
lows : 
Preparing 3 meals a day, averag¬ 
ing 1 hour each. 3 lirs. 
Feediug baby, changing her, bath¬ 
ing. etc., called. 2 hrs. 
Tending other 3 children, dress¬ 
ing, undressing, waiting on 
them, bathing, etc. 2 hrs. 
Left for remainder of work, 
dishes, washing, ironing, all 
kinds of cleaning, shopping, 
etc. 5 hrs. 
Total . 12 hrs. 
The first three items are things that 
have to be done every day; in the last 
oue the time can be divided differently 
daily. If I take a little outing, it must 
also come out of this five hours. In the 
Summer tending a garden must also. I 
get along fairly well, vbut still there are 
lots of things I have to omit that I 
should like to do. For convenience, I 
have electric lights, running water and 
a bathroom, steam heat in Winter and an 
oil stove iu Summer. We are contem¬ 
plating buying an electric washer, and I 
would dearly like a vacuum cleaner and 
a fireless cooker, hut they are beyond 
our means at present. 
The making of this budget has helped 
me, in that I now know how I must ap¬ 
portion my time. It has resulted in some 
valuable short cuts, as, for instance, in¬ 
stead of breaking into the midst of a hur¬ 
ried forenoon to give baby her bath, I 
wait until evening, when the other chil¬ 
dren are in bod and the heavy work out 
of the way, and bathe her just, before her 
last feeding. 
I do the mending and a little sewing 
in the evening, or when callers drop iu. 
For recreation I read quite a little while 
feeding baby. Occasionally we talke a 
half-day off, bundle up tl\p children and 
all pile into the faithful old Ford and go 
off for aii enjoyable outing. We also 
make it a point to celebrate anniver¬ 
saries and holidays, although in a very 
6 imple way. mrs. d. f. c. 
Seen in New York Shops 
“Roughing it” outfits for girls are 
meant for climbing and camping, but have 
many uses for country wear. Bloomer 
suits for girls of six to 10 were seen for 
$5.05. These were kindergarten cloth iu 
blue or rose, and consisted of bloomers 
and jacket with white pique collar, cuffs 
and belt. Suits of khaki-colored galatea, 
sizes six to 20, had full plaited bloomers 
and middy blouse. Other useful suits 
consist of separate blue serge plaited 
bloomers and white jean middy blouse. 
The bloomers cost $3.75 to $6.75; blouses 
from $2.50 to $4.25. the more expensive 
ones being of white galatea with collar 
and cuffs of blue galatea or flannel. 
Women’s “athletic” union suits of 
batiste and cross-bar were seeu for $1.75. 
This is a very practical style of under¬ 
wear, made as plainly as a hoy’s, but with 
a casing to run ribbon about the neck and 
sleeves. It is a useful model when under¬ 
wear is made at home. 
Among inexpensive petticoats taffeta is 
the cheapest, and the least durable, while 
silk jersey, although more expensive, 
wears better than taffeta or raessaline. 
Some skirts are made.with jersey top and 
taffeta or messaline flounce, others flounce 
and all of jersey. The jersey flounce is 
accordion pleated. Such a petticoat is 
graceful in outline, fitting well under the 
present style of skirts, and the jersey silk 
may be washed without deteriorating. 
Such skirts cost from about $7 to $12. 
Bungalow aprons, which take the place 
of dress in warm weather, cost $1.50 up. 
in seersucker and cliambray, $2.50 up in 
gingham. Iu spite of the high cost of 
material, we still think it pays to make 
these garments, if one can spare the time. 
August is another month of furniture 
sales in many large towns, and it will pay 
to make purchases now where means are 
on hand. Our own rule is to put off any 
large purchases until a time of special 
sales, where we know by comparison that 
we are getting a reduction on standard 
goods. 
Genuine 
Aspirin 
Name “Bayer” means genuine 
9ay “Bayer”—Insist I 
Say “Bayer” when buying Aspirin. 
Then you are sure of getting true “Bayer 
Tablets of Aspirin”—genuine Aspirin 
proved safe by millions and prescribed by 
physicians for over twenty years. Ac¬ 
cept only an unbroken “Bayer package” 
which contains proper directions to relieve 
Headache, Toothache, Earache, Neuralgia, 
Rheumatism, Colds and Pain. Handy tin 
boxes of 12 tablets cost few cents. Drug¬ 
gists also sell larger “Bayer packages.” 
Aspirin is trade mark of Bayer Manufac¬ 
ture Monoaceticacidester of Salicylicacid. 
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