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The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
October 11, 1924 
WOMAN AND HOME 
From Day to Day 
On a Dead Child 
Man proposes, God in His time disposes. 
Ami so I wandered up to where you 
lay, ' 
A little rose among the little roses. 
And no more dead than they. 
It. seemed your childish feet were tired 
of straying; 
You did not greet me from your flower- 
strewn bed. 
Yet still I knew that you were only play¬ 
ing— 
Playing at being dead. 
I might have thought that you were real¬ 
ly sleeping, 
! So quiet lay your eyelids to the sky, 
So still your hair, but surely you were 
peeping. 
And so I did not cry. 
God knows, and in His proper time dis¬ 
poses, 
And so I smiled and gently called your 
name, 
Added my rose to your sweet heap of 
roses, 
And left you to your game. 
—Richard Middleton (1882-1911). 
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We are asked to repeat a recipe for 
cold cucumber catsup, which enables one 
to utilize large cucumbers. It calls for 
12 cucumbers and three to five onions put 
through the chopper. Drain over night. 
Then pour on enough cold vinegar to 
make a catsup. Add two rounded table¬ 
spoons mustard seed, two tablespoons 
sugar, one tablespoon salt, one-eighth 
teaspoon cayenne pepper. Bottle and 
seal without cooking. 
Questions about making pickles are 
always plentiful at this season; every 
housekeeper knows how much satisfaction 
she gives with these relishes, which often 
give a stimulating quality to a plain 
ineal. But pickles and catsup are not the 
best part of life, and we hope country 
housekeepers are interesting themselves 
in other Autumn activities also. A great 
many busy women find themselves so con¬ 
stantly “on their feet” that they are never 
able to take a walk, and thus they miss 
the best .part of Autumn’s beauty. Hur¬ 
rying to town in the family car is not 
the same thing, though it does give them 
an opportunity for fresh air. But a 
brief walk, with some interesting objec¬ 
tive, will rest the mind if not the body, 
and it will certainly please the children. 
It is a good time to dig up some choice 
plants for the wild garden; some fine 
specimens should have been marked earl¬ 
ier, to transplant now. There are also 
some attractive wildlings that may be 
put in a fern dish or windowbox ; part¬ 
ridge berry, wintergreen, evergreen ferns, 
or even little seedling evergreens. One 
needs to soak in all the sunlight possi¬ 
ble before the dark days come, and cer¬ 
tainly the farm dweller has a right to the 
surrounding beauty. Appreciation of 
country pleasures helps one to bear the 
loss of some city advantages with philo¬ 
sophy. 
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Harder than all other questions that 
come to us are those that deal with re¬ 
munerative work at home for women. Un¬ 
scrupulous publications carry many mis¬ 
leading advertisements of what, we call 
“easy-work-at-home frauds,” and it is 
disheartening to read the pathetic let¬ 
ters of struggling women who have sent 
money for “outfit” or “instructions to 
such frauds. Untrained women will find 
it very hard to secure employment to be 
done at home, and they should always in¬ 
vestigate carefully beforehand. Some 
large manufacturers of knitted and cro¬ 
cheted woolen goods give out a great deal 
of work ; it is not highly paid, and must 
be very well done, but rapid and experi¬ 
enced workers find it quite satisfactory. 
It is very evident that any work that is 
done at home must be really salable ; lit¬ 
tle trifles of faneywork which many wo¬ 
men make for themselves are undesirable. 
In a district where there are many tour¬ 
ists there is a chance to develop some 
specialty that will be bought as a souve¬ 
nir. Remunerative work at home is a 
perennial subject; we are always glad 
to hear from those who have been able 
to develop anything in this line. 
Making Best of Things 
How often we hear people say, “I sup¬ 
pose I’ve got to make the best of it,” or 
“I shall have to make the most of it.” 
They say it in a tone of resignation, 
meaning that they cannot alter circum¬ 
stances, so they have got to put up with 
things as they exist, but that is not what 
the words imply. Why not start in and 
try really to make the best of things 
or the most of things—not only turning 
our adversities to a good purpose, but 
also using our blessings in such a way 
as to get the greatest possible benefit 
from them? To those who have never 
tried it. it may seem difficult but I am 
sure it, like other accomplishments, would 
grow easier with practice. 
My mother taught us children when 
small, to take pride in keeping all our 
belongings in good condition and making 
them go as far as possible, and that train¬ 
ing has grown up with us so that I hope 
and believe none of us will outgrow it. 
Making the most of things, I think, means 
practically the same as being economical 
and thrifty, a condition with which the 
people of the present and coming genera¬ 
tions seem to be alarmingly unfamiliar. 
As for making the best of things, per¬ 
haps I need advice on the subject as 
much as a great many other people, but 
when things get monotonous I like to 
play it as a sort of game. Each day 
brings new conditions to try to get the 
best of, and the old, familiar, everyday 
duties can be experimented with to see 
if different methods will not bring better 
or best results. One’s own common 
sense should keep one from experimenting 
to a disadvantage. 
This seemed to me a fitting time of 
year to voice my ideas on the subject. 
Fall is such a time for wants that can¬ 
not be supplied, and for airing accumula¬ 
tions that we dare not destroy for fear 
we will want them sometime. There is 
a very satisfying fascination in taking 
each item of our lives and seeing how 
much we can make of it, and if we find 
some other people have used their en¬ 
vironments to better purpose than we 
have, it will be easier to remember what 
to do next time. We can set it all down 
to experience, and feel confident that we 
are growing stronger in efficiency all the 
time. MRS. olova iiustle. 
Uncooked Pickles From 
Indiana 
Dill Pickles.—Use green cucumbers, 
six or eight inches long; wash and wipe 
them dry, then arrange in lawers in a 
deep stone jar, alternating with layers 
composed of chopped red peppers, a large 
bunch of dill seed on the stalk, and some 
clean grape leaves. Add four cups of salt 
to three gallons of water, boil and skim, 
adding enough water to make three gal- 
ons after cooling. Let cool and pour 
over the cucumbers. Spread more dill, 
more grape leaves and a clean cloth over 
the pickles, cover with a plate weighted 
down with a heavy stone; let stand three 
weeks before using. Wash the covering 
cloth twice a week. 
Lazy Wife Pickles.—Fill a quart can 
with sliced cucumbers and pour over it 
enough vinegar to fill can, adding a table¬ 
spoon each of salt, sugar and mustard. 
Seal. These will be good in one week. 
Uncooked Chili Sauce.—Slice one peck 
of tomatoes fine, sprinkle with one-half 
cup salt and let stand over night. In 
the morning drain off water and add to 
the tomatoes six medium-sized onions. 
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