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The  RURAL  NEW-YORKER 
June  16,  192: 
WOMAN  AND  HOME 
From  Day  to  Day 
An  Old  House 
Great  Rome  was  raised  on  hill-tops  seven, 
lu  pomp  to  all  the  winds  of  Heaven 
Her  brazen  eagles  flew ; 
I  know  an  old  house  in  a  hollow, 
Its  white  walls  harled  with  good  Scots 
harling; 
Here  haunts  at  dawn  the  gossip  starl¬ 
ing, 
Here  comes  the  first  returning  swallow 
When  skies  are  egg  shell  blue. 
Great  Rome  she  walled  eternal  glory 
The  fame  that  rang  in  camp  and  story 
Still  to  her  stones  belongs; 
The  old  house  shadows — quaint  and  fra¬ 
grant — 
-  A  garden  famed  for  stocks  and  roses, 
Where,  when  a  Summer  evening  closes, 
Old  borders  bloom,  half -guessed  and  va¬ 
grant, 
Like  echoes  of  old  songs  ! 
Great  Rome  she  wardened  miles  of 
marches ; 
From  Afric’s  palms  to  Albion’s  larches 
Her  clamorous  trumpets  went ; 
Here  are  for  its  sedate  controlling 
But  some  few  scores  of  sunny  acres 
Fruitful  and  fair,  content  as  Quakers, 
Spanned  in  a  Sunday  morning’s  strolling 
To  the  wood-dove’s  lament ! 
Great  Rome,  high-hilled,  all  roads 
reached  to  her ; 
Her  conquering  sons  who  served  and 
knew  her  ; 
In  pomp  returned  again  ; 
The  old  house  dozes  in  its  hollow, 
Fulfilled  of  gentle  ghosts  and  graces 
Come  back  to  haunt  remembered  places, 
As  comes  the  first  returning  swallow, 
In  sunshine  and  in  rain. 
— London  Punch. 
* 
One  of  our  friends  makes  extra  good 
baked  macaroni  as  follows:  The  form 
known  as  macaroni  elbows,  which  arc 
short  angles  instead  of  long  pipes,  is 
used.  The  macaroni  is  boiled  until 
tender  in  abundant  salted  water,  then 
drained,  and  put  in  a  howl.  Here  scald¬ 
ing  milk  is  poured  over  it,  enough  to 
cover  it  amply,  and  it  is  allowed  to  stand 
until  all  the  milk  is  absorbed.  AVhile  it 
is  still  hot,  crumbled  or  grated  cheese  is 
stirred  through  it,  the  quantity  varied 
according  to  taste,  for  some  like  a  very 
slight  cheese  flavoring,  while  other  pre¬ 
fer  a  generous  supply.  Season  with  salt 
and  pepper.  Put  the  macaroni  in  a 
baking  dish,  cover  the  top  with  grated 
bread  crumbs  and  pour  melted  butter 
over  the  crumbs.  Then  bake  until  the 
crumbs  are  well  browned.  This  is  de¬ 
licious,  and  the  liberal  use  of  milk  makes 
it  a  very  nourishing  dish. 
* 
One  of  our  readers  sends  us  a  descrip¬ 
tion  of  some  old  hooked  rugs  recently 
sold  at  one  of  the  New  York  galleries. 
Among  animal  designs  was  a  cat  rug,  a 
mother  cat  and  her  two  kittens  sitting 
on  a  red  ground  surrounded  by  a  lighter 
one  set  with  flowers.  Well  done  is  a  par¬ 
rot  sitting  on  a  branch  of  a  tree.  There 
are  two  exceptionally  life-like  ducks  on 
another  rug ;  a  King  Charles  spaniel 
lying  on  a  checkered  carpet,  and  roosters 
with  pink  combs  on  still  another,  m 
which  it  is  seen  that  the  maker  had  an 
instinct  for  realism.  An  inner  border 
has  a  recurrent  line  of  rooster  feet  or 
tracks.  There  are  many  animals  on  a 
rug  which  has  also  Masonic  insignia  ;  a 
yellow  duck  and  duckling,  an  orange  cat. 
a  gray  owl  and  pink  and  yellow  fish.  A 
horse  rug  shows  Dobbin  standing  near 
an  old-fashioned  pump  and  tub  of  water. 
There  are  “lucky”  rugs,  one  of  which 
has  on  it  the  words:  “Good  Luck,”  with 
horseshoes;  another  has  a  dozen  horse¬ 
shoes  and  one  a  horse’s  head  inside  a 
horseshoe.  “Forget-Me-Not”  is  in  script 
— hooked  writing  is  not  copy  plate — on 
one  rug  and  another  has  in  large  letters. 
“’Welcome,”  and  is  for  use  before  the 
front  door  of  the  home.  The  home  it¬ 
self  is  shown  on  other  “brick  house”  rugs. 
The  making  of  these  rugs  was  a  labor  of 
love,  and  many  a  hard-working  farmer’s 
wife  who  has  long  been  sleeping  in  some 
obscure  graveyard,  such  as  the  Hope 
Farm  man  describes,  is  commemorated 
in  this  patient  work.  While  she  lived  it 
was  perhaps  the  only  handicraft  in  which 
she  could  express  her  love  of  beauty,  lit¬ 
tle  thinking  that  a  later  generation  of 
strangers  would  search  for  her  work,  and 
prize  it  as  a  characteristic  form  of 
American  art. 
Cotton  Sacks  Are  Moth-proof 
This  season,  I  have  read  in  the  house¬ 
hold  notes  of  various  papers  and  jour¬ 
nals  so  many  directions  for  putting  away 
furs,  woolen  clothing,  and  other  articles 
that  are  liable  to  be  injured  by  the  trou¬ 
blesome  pests,  that  I  venture  to  give  a 
few  hints  of  my  method. 
The  clothes  moth  is  a  minute,  huff- 
colored  moth,  and  may  be  detected  flit¬ 
ting  around  the  room  at  dusk,  and  in  the 
evening.  They  are  probably  more  active 
after  dark,  and  at  this  time  the  females 
deposit  their  eggs.  The  moths  are  so 
small  that  it  is  difficult  to  keep  chests 
or  other  receptacles  in  which  clothing 
is  stored,  tight  enough  to  exclude  them. 
The  moths  with  their  wings  spread  do 
not  measure  more  than  three-eighths  of 
an  inch  from  tip  to  tip.  The  body  is 
slender  and  not  much  more  than  an 
eighth  of  an  inch  long. 
They  are  two-brooded,  working  the 
last  half  of  May  and  all  through  Jvme. 
again  in  August,  September  and  into  Oc- 
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tober.  Many  people  suppose  that  the 
night-flying  moths  that  drive  into  the 
lamps  and  are  attracted  to  lights,  are  the 
troublesome  pests.  Not  so.  they  are  the 
fruit  and  cutworm  moths.  Clothes  moths 
shun  the  light. 
Furs  and  woolens  wrapped  in  paper 
and  put  into  boxes  and  bureau  drawers 
and  dark  closets,  are  no  protection.  The 
mofhs  delight  to  creep  into  a  fold  of  pa¬ 
per  or  perhaps  a  little  pinhole  furnishes 
her  a  good  place  to  deposit  a  few  eggs. 
These  hatch  and  make  their  way  to  good 
feeding  ground.  I  have  seen  a  set  of 
furs  that  was  well  dusted  with  black 
pepper  and  wrapped  with  several  thick¬ 
nesses  of  paper,  taken  out  in  the  Winter, 
completely  ruined. 
I  buy  unbleached  muslin  and  make 
sacks  of  different  sizes,  according  to  the 
garment  to  be  inclosed,  stitch  the  seams 
on  the  machine,  leaving  one  end  open, 
and  have  them  long  enough  for  a  good 
closing.  Shake,  and  brush  your  garments 
with  a  whisk  broom,  fold  nicely,  wrap 
in  paper,  if  you  choose,  and  slide  them 
into  the  sacks  and  tie  with  a  stout  cord, 
four  or  five  inches  from  the  top,  give  it 
a  twist,  double  down  and  tie  again.  The 
second  tying  tells  the  story.  Put  them 
away  in  boxes,  bureaus  or  closets — they 
are  safe.  If  you  want  to  wear  your 
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