1891 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
155 
ENGLISH NEEDLE POINT LACE. 
N the remote country districts it is often 
the case that many persons look upon 
home-made laces without delight, simply 
because they have a habit of despising 
those things which can be made at home. 
Near the great cities, on the contrary, the 
woman who does not know how to make 
beautiful hand-made trimmings and laces 
looks with envy on her neighbor who can 
indulge in them. Needle laces are in the 
fore-front of beauty and desirability ; they 
are expensive, even extravagant to buy, 
but when made at home are reasonable in 
cost, the greatest value being in the work 
that is put into them. 
Any woman who can make a neat but¬ 
ton-hole can make for herself a set of laces 
like the beautiful pattern given in the 
present issue, provided only that she has 
the time to give to its making. And the 
work is not so much slower than the intri¬ 
cate crochet patterns now so popular as 
one who has not tried it would believe. 
The preliminary steps are the most trying, 
simply because they are “stupid”—the 
fascination beginning when the lovely pat¬ 
tern begins to grow under the hands as It 
is filled in. 
The linen braids used in this work (which 
was known as “modern point lace” 
before the craze for everything English 
took possession of us), come in many varie¬ 
ties and widths of the so-called plain kinds; 
in perhaps a dozen styles of Honiton (con¬ 
sisting of linked medallions); and in sev¬ 
eral “ purl edges ” which are used to form 
a finish after the work is done. The thread 
braid costs more than the plain ones, but it 
can be used anywhere in a pattern to help 
fill in and save stitches if time is more 
valuable than money. The square stitches 
in the lower spaces are formed by first 
throwing a row of loose button-hole stitches 
across the space, then twisting the thread 
back along the lower edge of the row and 
repeating till the space is filled. At the 
right and left of these the pattern shows a 
filling of single button-hole stitches in suc¬ 
cessive rows; it is much prettier, however, 
as well as more durable, if the double 
button-hole stitch is used. In this, the 
first stitch is taken so as to form a loop; a 
second, In the same place, is drawn down 
closely, and these are repeated throughout. 
This ties every loop, and renders the work 
very firm. When all the filling is done, a 
purl edge is closely overcast along the 
lower edge, when the basting threads are 
removed and the work is revealed in all its 
beauty. Knots must, of course, be all on 
the wrong side, which may be either next 
the worker or next the pattern, as seems 
mo3t convenient. myra v. norys. 
TRAINING CHILDREN TO POLITE¬ 
NESS. 
OME one has said that all children are 
born savages. The statement may 
sound harsh when we consider what sweet, 
dimpled, lovable little beings our own 
particular darlings are; but we may as 
well recognize the fact early, lest the civil¬ 
izing process be too long delayed. 
To desire, to claim, to snatch, to keep, in 
total disregard of the rights of others, are 
Fig. 59. 
is linen also, and is made for the purpose. 
No. 500 is good for a beginner to use. 
The pattern is best traced on paper cam 
brie of a color that will not try the eyes, 
backed after tracing with strong yellow 
paper. Plain braid, all of one kind, or 
varying in different parts of the pattern to 
suit the worker, is basted carefully to the 
pattern, following its outlines exactly ; the 
braid may be turned squarely over for most 
corners, if it is reversible, as most of it is. 
When the braid is solidly in place every 
crossing and corner is fastened with firm 
stitches and every curve whipped on the 
inner edge makes it lie flatly. 
The filling stitches are nearly all varying 
combinations of button-hole stitch. For 
small spaces, only twisted bars are often 
used ; the thread is first stretched across, 
then followed back by a second, twisted 
around it. This makes a firm cross-bar to 
hold the braids in position. The web-like 
wheel is formed by throwing a thread 
across a space and twisting back to the 
center, where a fastening is made; thence 
other bars like a web are thrown out to the 
adjacent braids, and when five or seven are 
formed the needle is woven over and under 
the threads around the center until the 
knot appears as in the pattern, when the 
first half bar, yet untwisted, is followed to 
the place of beginning. This makes a rapid 
filling, though not so firm and durable as 
the closer stitches. 
The upper portion of the pattern, with 
the four points, is formed from medallions 
of the Honiton braid cut in pairs. This 
Please mention The R. N.-Y. to our adver¬ 
tisers. 
When Baby was sick, we gave her Castorla, 
When she was a Child, she cried for Castoria, 
When she became Miss, she clung to Castoria, 
When she had Children, she gave them Castoria. 
among childhood’s earliest and, at most, 
universal manifestations. In other words, 
selfishness is perfectly natural; and, left to 
himself, a child is unable to perceive why 
he should not have what he wants, when 
he wants It, simply because he does want 
it. 
Such a habit of mind will grow upon him, 
like any other habit, unless he is taught to 
recognize the claims of others and to see 
the beauties of the better way. Indeed, we 
all need to make life-long efforts to control 
the natural selfishness within us; and he 
has attained to the highest civilization who 
has most truly learned to be—not merely to 
seem— unselfish. 
Some never get far out of barbarism, 
even though living to extreme old age, and 
we grievously wrong our children unless 
we begin early to help them in self mastery. 
Even baby must not have all the play¬ 
things, and if he persists in taking them 
from some other baby, a little snapping of 
his rosy fingers will soon teach him what 
he must learn. If three-year-old Mamie 
wants to play “ hide-and-go seek ” when her 
visitor prefers to swing, she can easily be 
shown how much sweeter and nicer it 
is to be polite and to do what Nelly 
wants her to, “ because she is company.” 
Then, if little brother and sister are en¬ 
gaged in a violent quarrel over the posses, 
sion of the rocking-horse, the combat can 
quickly be stilled if mamma says : “Now, 
stop and think 1 You both forgot, didn’t 
you ? But you are sorry, I am sure; now, 
let me see which of you will be kind and 
polite first ?” There will be a moment of 
quiet, of shamefacedness, of yielding, and 
then Grade’s bright eyes and happy smile 
will show that her better self has con¬ 
quered, and she will say: “Johnny can 
have it 1” And Johnny, not to be outdone 
in politeness, will insist that “ Grade must 
take it first ’’—till mamma settles the 
happier controversy in some satisfactory 
way. 
In one household of little people, a tiny 
blue shield inscribed with silvery letters 
hangs on the dining-room wall, and its one 
question, “ What would Jesus do ? ” has 
settled many a childish dispute, for the 
little ones are taught to love the Saviour 
and to know that He is sorry when they 
quarrel and pleased when they are kind 
and polite to each other. As soon as baby 
can talk she can learn to say “ Please ” and 
“ Thank you ” if she wants a cookie or 
cracker, and long before she Is three years 
old she can and should say, “ Please 
forgive me” or “Excuse me,” if she has 
committed an intentional or unintentional 
rudeness. 
A sweet and gracious readiness to apolo¬ 
gise for mistakes and wrong-doing is not 
easily acquired in adult life ; and no doubt 
many otherwise Christian men and women 
wrong themselves and others through an 
unconquerable aversion to confessing their 
faults “one to another,” and all because 
they lacked the early discipline which 
would render such duty-doing an easy, 
simple, and matter-of-fact custom. Let us 
be sure that our own loved ones shall not 
suffer similarly through our failure to 
train them wisely in their earliest life. 
CARRIE ELLIS BRECK. 
TRAINING GIRLS FOR HOUSE¬ 
KEEPING. 
T HERE are the studies that must not 
be interrupted—social exchanges to 
be duly met; a certain amount of sewing 
and reading to be accomplished; out-of- 
door life in abundance, and enough sleep to 
insure health, to be secured. 
The most efficient, ambitious mother is 
often necessarily absorbed with other Inter¬ 
ests than adapting her spare moments to 
the intervals of her daughter’s leisure; and 
the completion of house duties is impera¬ 
tive, and cannot wait for the hand of a 
novice. 
How would it do to begin the housekeep¬ 
ing lessons, when the daughters are five 
and six? Teach them to handle their toys 
nicely, and to arrange their play houses 
conveniently for dollie’s comfort. As they 
get older, show them how to dust and how 
to sew, using doll’s patterns; and, when the 
study hours begin to grow longer,.let them, 
once or twice a week, do some genuine 
house work, like the thorough sweeping of 
their own room; or making a certain kind 
of bread; the coffee for breakfast; from 
time to time a staple dish—desserts will 
easily follow. During vacation, (with lots 
of fun in between) let them make out the 
programme of two or three days’ work, 
submitted the day before to the mother, to 
be carried through by them, with the ex¬ 
ception of emergencies. 
Let them contribute a share in the hos¬ 
pitalities of their home. Who is a more at¬ 
tractive hostess than the accomplished 
daughter, gracefully and Intelligently en¬ 
tertaining guests in the home of her 
parents? And how easily and naturally all 
her growing duties will fall into line, in the 
home that follows that of her maidenhood. 
L. H. TRIVETT. 
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