1892 
THE  RURAL  NEW-YORKER. 
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What  Open  Eyes  See. 
Stooping. — Instead  of  talking  so 
much  to  the  children  about  stooping1,  I 
wish  parents  and  teachers  would  show 
young-  ones  how  easily  they  can  throw 
their  shoulders  back  by  keeping  the 
palms  of  the  hands  open  while  the  arms 
hang  by  the  sides  with  the  little  lingers 
next  to  the  thighs.  Then  they  should  be 
shown  the  soldiers  attitude,  with  hips 
thrown  back  and  chest  extended. 
EMMA  n. 
Dream  Dresses. — Youliave  heard  of  a 
“  slumber  robe,”  doubtless  ?  But  did  you 
ever  hear  even  your  dearest  friend  dis¬ 
course  about  her  “  dream  dress  ?  ”  Your 
matter-of-fact  grandmother  called  it  a 
night-gown,  but  we  have  changed  all 
that.  A  late  style  is  described  as  follows : 
“  One  of  the  prettiest  patterns  in  dream 
dresses  is  the  4  Marguerite.’  It  comes  in 
fine  French  nainsook,  and  is  made  with 
a  fitted  body  in  front.  The  back  falls 
full  and  plain  from  the  neck  to  the 
ground  ;  in  front  the  fullness,  what  there 
is  of  it,  is  drawn  in  by  means  of  a  ribbon 
that  runs  forward  from  under  arm  seams 
through  a  wide  beading,  and  is  fastened 
in  a  soft,  full  bow  at  the  front.  There  is  a 
full,  flowing  sleeve  finished  by  a  fall  of 
lace,  usually  point  de  l’aris,  and  a  deep  col¬ 
lar  of  mull  edged  with  lace,  and  carried 
round  and  over  the  bust  in  a  surplice 
shape.”  This,  by  the  way,  is  almost  an  ex¬ 
act  description  of  the  make-up  of  one  of 
the  newer  and  also  one  of  the  most  grace¬ 
ful  of  tea  gowns,  except  as  to  material.  On 
some  of  these  things  that  dreams  are 
made  in,  as  an  additional  decoration  all 
the  seams  are  hemstitched.  This  makes 
a  particularly  dainty  trimming  and  gives 
an  air  of  refinement  that  no  other  adorn¬ 
ment  could  possible  produce. 
“  Our  Single  Acre.”— Doeslife  often 
seem  flat,  stale,  unprofitable  ;  do  jtou 
ever  say  life  is  a  failure,  not  worth  the 
living  ?  In  a  mood  of  that  kind  not  long 
since,  a  few  words  written  by  Edward 
Garrett,  rebuked  my  complainings,  sil¬ 
enced  my  murmurs  and  helped  me  to  a 
better  spirit.  I  quote,  hoping  that  they 
may  help  some  other  discouraged  one  : 
“  And  when  it  is  all  over,  and  our  feet 
will  run  no  more,  and  our  hands  are  help¬ 
less,  and  we  have  scarcely  strength  to 
murmur  a  last  prayer,  then  we  shall  see 
instead  of  needing  a  larger  field,  we  have 
left  untilled  many  corners  of  our  single 
acre,  and  that  none  of  it  is  fit  for  the 
softening  shadow  of  the  cross.”  Are  we 
doing  all  we  can  with  our  “single  acre,” 
or  are  our  corners  untilled,  and  full  of 
noxious  weeds,  ready  to  send  out  their 
poisonous  seeds  to  spoil  all  our  tilled 
land  ?  m.  c.  B. 
A  Sagging  Seam.— A  great  difficulty 
with  the  bell  skirt  has  been  that  the  bias 
seam  at  the  back  would  stretch  and  cause 
the  skirt  to  sag.  The  most  pretentious 
directions  for  home  dressmaking  have 
recommended  that  the  offending  seam 
be  stayed  with  tape  ;  but  the  unyielding 
tape  caused  the  seam  to  remain  firm, 
while  the  soft  bias  cloth  at  the  side  of  it 
festooned  itself  in  awkward,  sagging 
folds.  Credit  is  given  to  an  amateur 
dressmaker  for  the  notion  of  staying  the 
seam  with  a  bias  piece  of  firm  wool  goods, 
such  as  serge,  to  make  it  springy,  the 
sewing  being  done  by  hand.  Discussing 
this,  some  one  says  :  “  The  best  dress¬ 
maker  that  ever  graduated  from  school 
or  workshop  cannot  make  up  a  soft, 
sleazy  material  with  long  bias  seams 
without  danger  that  they  will  sag  more 
or  less;  but  this  bias  stay,  while  it  gives 
all  necessary  firmness,  does  not  produce 
that  rigid  line  which  is  so  often  seen  in 
what  is  called  high-class  work,  and 
When  Baby  was  sick,  we  gave  her  Castorla, 
When  she  was  a  Child,  she  cried  for  Castorla, 
When  she  became  Miss,  she  clung  to  Castorla, 
When  she  had  Children,  she  gave  them  Castorla 
which  hopelessly  disfigures  many  of  the 
handsomest  dresses.  A  bias  band  of  silk 
answers  the  purpose  very  well,  but, 
whether  for  silk  or  wool  materials  or  for 
mixtures,  there  is  nothing  better  than  a 
firm,  fine  serge  used  as  described.” 
Please  Handle  With  Care.  —  T  li  e 
other  day,  says  a  writer  in  the  Bress,  I  saw 
the  composition  of  a  schoolboy  lying 
on  the  desk  of  a  typewriter.  Never  real¬ 
izing  that  papers  of  great  importance 
came  to  her,  and  thinking  that  his  essay 
was  the  one  thing  in  the  world  worth 
considering,  he  had  written  on  the  cover 
in  large  letters,  “  Handle  with  care.” 
Just  these  three  words  seemed  a  bit  of  a 
lesson  to  me. 
Do  we  handle  with  care  the  disagree¬ 
able  opinions  we  have  of  other  people  ? 
If  we  did,  they  would  not  find  out  how 
much  we  disliked  them. 
Do  we  handle  with  care  the  woman 
whose  mind  is  tainted  with  envy,  and 
whose  speech  is  full  of  malice  ?  If  we 
did,  we  wouldn’t  lend  the  listening  ear  to 
her. 
Do  we  handle  with  care  the  little 
people  who  come  to  us?  If  we  did,  we 
would  have  honorable  sons  and  loving 
daughters. 
Do  we  handle  with  care  our  four-footed 
friends?  If  we  did  we  would  get  a  har¬ 
vest  of  affectionate  barks,  of  wagging 
tails  and  of  eyes  full  of  love. 
Do  we  handle  with  care  the  hearts  of 
the  men  and  women  who  are  about  us  ? 
I  don’t  think  we  do.  In  the  race  of  life 
we  don’t  seem  to  have  time  to  stop  and 
do  as  the  Samaritan  did,  but  we  rush 
along,  and  are  only  too  apt  to  simply 
send  to  the  sufferer  our  regrets  that  other 
engagements  prevent  us  from  personally 
offering  our  condolence. 
A  Woman’s  Invention. — Forgreas- 
ing  the  griddle,  says  “One  Woman”  every 
cook  and  housekeeper  can  tell  what  her 
own  particular  makeshift  has  been.  A 
piece  of  paper,  or  an  old  rag  dipped  in 
the  lard  or  butter  and  rubbed  over  the 
griddle,  or  the  “spider,”  is  a  time-honored 
device.  Either  one  must  use  a  scrap  of 
cloth  or  paper,  and  one’s  finger’s,  or  else 
a  knife  may  be  employed  to  convey  the 
lard  to  the  griddle,  where  it  might  melt 
and  spread  at  its  leisure. 
The  clever  Southern  woman  was 
greased  and  burnt  with  red-hot  oil  just 
as  generations  of  women  before  her. 
But  she  has  made  that  an  unnecessary 
feature  of  domestic  torture  for  the  women 
who  live  after  her.  The  little  instru¬ 
ment  she  invented  is  of  heavy  wire.  It 
has  a  handle  about  eight  inches  long 
and  spreads  at  one  end  into  a  double 
clasp,  through  which  a  wide  lamp  wick 
is  run  twice,  so  that  a  broad,  thick  sur¬ 
face  is  presented.  Witli  one  quick  motion 
a  griddle  may  be  thoroughly  greased 
without  soiling  or  burning  a  finger,  and 
the  wick  may  be  changed  in  a  twinkling 
when  desirable. 
Burdette  on  Small  Fruits.— The 
funny  man  says,  in  the  Ladies’  Home 
Journal,  that  what  is  needed  in  the  small 
fruit  market  is  not  so  many  names  but  a 
few  more  berries,  say  about  two  pints  to 
the  quart.  Every  berry  in  the  land  has 
more  names  now  than  a  caterpillar,  and 
he  has  more  than  he  can  remember. 
When  he  begins  business  he  is  a  plain 
caterpillar,  and  everybody  who  steps  on 
him  knows  just  what  to  call  him.  Then 
he  retires— that  is  if  he  has  a  chance  to 
retire  before  he  is  trodden  under  foot — 
and  is  known  as  a  larva  ;  then  he  gets 
to  be  a  pupa  or  a  chrysalis  or  something, 
and  by  the  time  he  gets  to  be  a  butterfly 
he  forgets  what  the  old  firm  name  was. 
But  there  is  a  bug  with  a  name  as  long 
as  a  snake  that  abides  among-  the  black¬ 
berries.  He  does  not  eat  them.  He  just 
haunts  the  patches  where  city  boarders 
are  staying,  and  makes  it  his  business  to 
rise  early  in  the  morning  and  crawl 
over  the  largest  and  finest  and  ripest 
berries.  When  you  eat  a  blackberry 
that  has  been  glorified  by  a  visit  from 
this  bug,  you  just  lie  right  down  in  the 
briars  and  ask  to  die.  You  do  not  want 
to  live  a  minute  longer.  Not  with  that 
taste  in  your  mouth.  If  I  understand 
rightly  what  a  bramble  is,  the  black¬ 
berry,  in  a  state  of  nature,  is  the  bram- 
bliest  thing  that  ever  brambled.  A  hu¬ 
man  being,  clothed  and  in  his  right 
mind,  who  goes  in  at  one  side  of  a  wild 
blackberry  patch  and  comes  out  at  the 
other  is  moved  with  wonder  at  the  com¬ 
pensations  of  nature.  For  every  one  of 
the  thousand  scratches  on  his  perishing 
frame  he  has  a  ready-made  bandage 
hanging  loosely  from  his  raiment. 
Ice  Cream  as  a  Remedy. — The  R. 
N.-Y.  is  conservative,  and  although  it 
offers  a  freezer  as  a  premium,  it  has 
taken  care  to  say  only  that  ice  cream 
well-made  is  very  wholesome.  Other 
publications,  however,  are  recommending 
it  after  this  wise  : 
“  The  value  of  ice  cream  as  a  remedy 
for  certain  intestinal  troubles  is  being 
considerably  advanced.  Some,  indeed 
most  physicians  permit  it  through  typhoid 
fever,  always  insisting  that  it  shall  be  of 
the  purest  make.  To  the  story  recently 
going  the  rounds  in  print,  of  the  entire 
cure  of  a  case  of  ulcer  of  the  stomach  by 
the  sole  and  persistent  use  of  ice  cream 
may  be  added  that  of  a  woman  who  suf¬ 
fered  from  a  serious  affliction  of  the  eyes, 
directly  traceable  to  digestive  distur¬ 
bances.  Her  physician  finally  put  her  on 
ice  cream  as  a  sole  diet.  For  11  months 
she  liter-ally  lived  upon  ice  cream,  with 
the  result  of  effecting  a  complete  and 
apparently  permanent  cure.  The  theory 
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ishment,  while  the  diseased  intestines, 
chilled  from  the  low  temperature  of  the 
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