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WOMAN AND HOME 
From Day to Day 
The Release 
Even so in our mortal journey, 
The bitter north winds blow, 
And thus upon life’s red river, 
Our hearts as oarsmen row. 
And when the Angel of Shadow 
Rests his feet on wave and shore, 
And our eyes grow dim with watching, 
And our hearts faint at the oar, 
Happy is he who heareth 
The signal of his release 
In the bells of the holy city, 
The chimes of eternal peace. 
-AUTHOR UNKNOWN. 
Who can give us a recipe for melon 
butter? We have heard of muskmelon 
being stewed down until a smooth mar¬ 
malade. then sweetened to taste, but do 
not know whether the melon butter is 
made after this manner. Some years ago 
one of our correspondents wrote us that 
she had made an excellent smooth butter 
by combining a few tart red plums with 
muskmelon. boiling until smooth and 
thick, and sweetening to taste. 
* 
We have often referred to the very 
poisonous nature of the weeds known as 
poison hemlock and water hemlock (Co- 
nium maculatum and Cicuta maculata). 
We saw a note recently in an English 
newspaper regarding an inquest upon the 
body of a boy of 12 years, who had 1)000 
poisoned by one of these plants. Ac¬ 
cording to evidence submitted the boy 
had used stems of hemlock to make a 
peashooter, and was fatally poisoned by 
putting it in his mouth. While we know 
nothing more of this case, the plants in 
question are so deadly that it is quite 
possible death might be caused in such 
a manner. It is said that cattle have 
been poisoned by trampling the plants 
at the edge of a pool and then drinking 
adjacent water. The plants are dis¬ 
agreeable in flavor, but it is said that 
people have been poisoned by digging the 
fleshy roots of poison hemlock in early 
Spring and eating them in mistake for 
parsnips or horseradish. The roots are 
especially deadly. Apparently there is 
no antidote for this poison, and treat¬ 
ment is almost hopeless. Efforts should 
be made to destroy such plants wherever 
they are found. 
* 
Some New Yoi-k insurance brokers will 
now insure people against rain during 
vacation trips. Of course, insurance will 
not prevent rain, but the vacationist 
whose trip is spoiled by rain gets some 
of his money back. This sort of insur¬ 
ance has long been procurable in Great 
Britain, where the group knowns as 
“Lloyds” will insure against every pos¬ 
sible contingency, and it is usual for 
amusement enterprises whose success de¬ 
pends on weather conditions to insure 
against rain. It is said that recently 
the Tri-State Fair managers in South 
Dakota took a policy whereby they were 
to get $5,000 if rain fell on the first day 
and $5,000 more if it fell on the second 
day of their show. There was a flood 
both days, and they collected $10,000. 
* 
We notice that some of the good ladies 
of the anti-suffrage camp assert that cer¬ 
tain Tennessee legislators sold their votes 
to the suffrage party, and thus permitted 
the ratification of the Nineteenth Amend¬ 
ment. It would hardly seem possible to 
use that .as an anti-suffrage argument, 
even if it were possible to prove what 
remains a mere assertion, for after all 
they are accusing men of a willingness 
to 'sell their votes, and if there is any 
moral to be found, it applies to men in 
public life, and not to women. Yet even 
the most violent anti-suffragist would 
hesitate to say that men should not vote 
because political privileges would demor¬ 
alize them. 
Seen in New York Shops 
Unshrinkable English flannel is $1.49 
and $1.98 a yard, in a variety of stripes, 
31 inches wide. It is also obtainable m 
cream white at $1.89. It is desirable for 
blouses, shirts and pajamas. 
Embroidered baby flannels were seep 
from $2.49 to $3.69 a yard. They were 
35 inches wide, embroidered in silk on 
both sides. These were wool-mixed flan¬ 
nel of nice quality. One can make two 
The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
September 11, 1920 
baby petticoats out of 1*4 yards. Outing 
flannel, striped pink and white or blue 
and white, was seen for 42 cents a yard. 
It -was the quality generally used for 
nightgowns and children’s wear. We 
used to think 18 cents a yard about right. 
Printed flannelette for kimonos and dress¬ 
ing sacks 27 inches wide is 47 cents a 
yard; 36 inches wide, 59 cents a yard. 
Little turbans of folded duvetyne ap¬ 
peared among the earliest of Fall hats, 
displacing the usual black velvet. They 
cost around $5, and require no trimming 
beyond a little ornament. 
The Rural Patterns 
In ordering always give number of pattern 
and size desired, sending price with order 
2011 
2018. Top Coat, 
SO to 40 bust. The 
medium size will re¬ 
quire 6% yards of 
material 30 inches 
wide, 5 yards 44. 
4% yards 54. 20 
cents. 
2031. Girl’s Coat, 
1 to 8 years. The 
4 or G-year size will 
require 2% yards of 
material 30 inches 
wide, 2Yt yards, 44, 
1% yards 54. 20 
cents. 
losTtns 
Blouse for 
and smaU 
10 and 18 
2021. 
misses 
women, 
years. 
1037. Design for 
motifs, to be em¬ 
broidered in beads 
or threads. The 10- 
year size will require 
yards of mate¬ 
rial 30 inches wide, 
1% yards 40 or 44. 
Each 20 cents. 
20*1 
20-41. Blouse with 
convertible collar. 34 
to 44 bust. The 
medium size will re¬ 
quire 3& yards of 
material 27 inches 
wide, 2 >4 yards 36, 
1% yards 44. 20 
cents. 
rot. A bit of sand beneath each bulb is 
a good thing. mother bee. 
The Lesser Fall Bulbs 
We are always advised to plant tulips 
and hyacinths in the Fall for Spring 
blooming, and they probably are the most 
showy, with the exception, perhaps, of the 
Narcissus family, the daffodils, jonquils 
and poet’s) Narcissus. But the bulbs 
that have the warm corner of my heart 
are the little blossoms that, come first. 
This year the dainty little snowdrop was 
in bloom March 4. It is always in bloom 
in March here in Vermont. We planted 
them two or three inches deep and the 
same distance apart, put on each Fall 
a half-inch of fine, well-rotted manure, 
then a few spruce, or, better yet, balsam 
boughs. The balsam needles do not fall 
off. After a few warm Spring days we 
carefully lift the houghs and there are 
the dearest little blossoms in the world, 
no matter if the snow is a foot deep be¬ 
side them. 
Next with us comes the Crocus, white, 
white veined with lilac, yellow and pur¬ 
ple. This year they bloomed April 10. 
but they are April’s flower. These are 
the most showy of the little bulbs, and 
Pumpkin Loaf 
This is my grandmother’s recipe: To 
prepare the pumpkin select a rich-look¬ 
ing. ripe pumpkin of a deep orange color; 
wash and slice, do not peel it. Cook to 
a good brown, being careful not to scratch. 
Rub through a colander when it is cool. 
One quart of rich buttermilk, one teacup 
maple sugar, one egg, one tablespoon sal- 
eratus. a pinch of salt, allspice to taste, 
one pint of prepared' pumpkin, cornmenl 
to make a stiff hatter. Bake in a mod¬ 
erately hot oven. It should be about 
two inches thick when baked. I think 
the canned pumpkin might he good if 
cooked more, and other spice to. taste. 
Grandma preferred allspice for this loaf. 
MRS. A. M. D. 
Saving and Making 
Genuine 
Aspirin 
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ncrease quite rapidly. We plant ours 
he same as the snowdrop, and usually 
iefore the blossom has been open an 
iour it is visited by a honey-bee from a 
[istance. We always wonder how he 
;new it was there. 
Then come the blue stars. Scilla, a 
lark blue, bloomed April 15, and the 
3hionodoxa, a lighter blue, with white 
:enter, about the same day. These are 
danted the same depth and distance 
ipart, and so is the grape hyacinth, 
vhich has blue, hell-like blossoms. These 
aake a very effective edging for a bulb 
>ed, especially if left to multiply for sev¬ 
eral years. Then it will be a wave of 
due, six to eight inches across, as I 
isually plant two rows for a border in 
;he beginning. 
All these bulbs are very hardy and 
sure to bloom, and increase quite rapidly. 
tVe leave them undisturbed until they 
jet so crowded they do not flower as well 
is they have been in the habit of doing. 
If course, if given a warm, sunny situa- 
:ion they bloom earlier, and all bulbs 
mist have a well-drained bed or they will 
If I were an artist I would paint a 
picture of a man suspended from high 
prices, far up. and stretched to the break¬ 
ing point by low prices of farm products, 
and name the picture “The Plight of the 
Present-Day Farmer.” Politicians may 
paint a glowing word picture of the pros¬ 
perity of the farm, but the scenery, if 
true to life, was not portrayed in this 
part of Tennessee. Yet to a certain ex¬ 
tent we can combat a hit of the high 
prices and boost the low ones. Eggs at 
30 cents per dozen are good for the farm 
workman, who toils 12 long hours at the 
groat sum of $1 or perhaps $1.50 per day. 
There are many different ways of serving 
eggs, and’ but ifew things that come 
through the middleman’s hands can be 
bought at the price, containing the. same 
amount of nourishment. Again, if we 
have surplus butter or vegetables, we can 
dispose of many pounds or bushels among 
our neighbors, and again cut out the mid¬ 
dleman. By bartering and exchanging 
through our farm papers we can obtain 
what we need at a far greater saving 
than the ex-pense of a bit of advertising. 
In clothing we can cut out the silly habit 
of buying new hats each season to follow 
the fashion; of hanging up a perfectly 
good garment because it is a bit behind 
in skimpiness or fullness. We can re¬ 
dye the boys’ faded clothes, refoot the 
stockings, take idle coats of good material 
and make them over into new suits for 
the small folks. If none of your own, 
pass them on to those who have, and he 
sure of. the pattern ; the. result, will he 
gratifying. Many localities still have 
old-time spinners. Procure a fleece of 
wool, wash and scour thoroughly, aud set 
these good old women to work spinning 
yarn. If there is a bit of cotton twisted 
in with the wool, the socks to.be knitted 
will wear longer; and the Winter even¬ 
ings may be used profitably in knitting 
stockings that you know will wear. 
Where the climate will permit, sufficient 
cotton for use in quilts or comforts may 
be raised. 
Where corn will grow, broom corn will 
mature; sufficient for home use should be 
grown, and a hit to sell will help out. If 
you can purchase home-cured bacon for 
20 cents per pound, and homemade lard 
for 20 or 25 cents per pound, do not turn 
it down for packing concerns’ product 
retailing for 50 cents per pound. Leave 
that for $12-a-day, eight-hour men to eat. 
Remember that on 75 cents per day you 
will fall behind if you handle much of 
these high-priced workmen’s products. 
Meanwhile use your head as well as your 
hands. , ,, 
I saw a straw bedtick made of well- 
washed cement sacks; some towels of the 
same material; dishcloths of the best 
portions of worn-out knit underwear; a 
cook apron from the best part of an oil¬ 
cloth ; stockings from knit underwear that 
had been colored brown; some pretty 
dresses were made from old white waists ; 
a sailor suit from a white duck skirt; 
rompers from an old-fashioned linen 
dustei’. No one person can tell another 
just how to economize, but each one can 
help the other by refusing to buy the high- 
priced products. And whenever anyone 
tells you that the majority of the people 
want the high-priced product, and refuse 
to buy low-priced goods, put him down 
as a falsifier at the least. 
Tell your home merchant that you can¬ 
not eat pasteboard and tin boxes. Insist 
on his buying rice, pepper, salt, sugar, 
coffee, etc., in bulk. It will mean a sav¬ 
ing of several hundred dollars m every 
neighborhood. MRS. D. B. T. 
Red Tomato Catsup 
Tomatoes should always be cooked in a 
porcelain-lined vessel; iron or tin should 
never be used. Take a basket of good, 
ripe tomatoes, quarter them and cook 
enough so as to strain, and remove seeds 
and skin. To every basket of tomatoes 
add two ounces whole spice; tie the spices 
in two or three muslin or cheesecloth 
hags; let the whole boil again, and add 
to this one-half pound sugar, one-half 
teacup salt, one pint good cider vinegar 
and two medium-sized onions chopped 
very fine. (The onions may be omitted 
if desired.) Boil down nulp to good 
thickness. Do not add the vinegar and 
sugar to the catsup until about 10 min¬ 
utes before removing from the fire. Bot¬ 
tle while the catsup is steaming hot, tak¬ 
ing care that the containers or bottles 
are also warm; cork and seal tightly at 
once, and fermentation will never occur. 
This is so red in color and so well fla¬ 
vored that it compares favorably with 
the highest grade of prepared catsup. 
ClilUSTINE M. BROWN, 
Bay “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¬ 
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