1891 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
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the matter well, think over it prayerfully, 
allow plenty of time to intervene before 
taking so important a step, and be perft ctly 
certain that husband number two is not 
after her money. There are, no doubt, 
many honorable men in the world who 
would marry widows, treat their children 
kindly and devote their future lives to 
making them happy. I think in such a 
case it would be wrong to debar them from 
using a former husband’s money. Then 
again, a man ought to know what kind 
of a wife he has and whether it is safe to 
make a will in her favor or not. 
Washington mbs JOHN M. 
THE IDEAL FACTORY BECOME REAL. 
AMILIAR to every one who sees the 
papers of the day is the neat adver¬ 
tisement of the Ferris Good Sense Corset 
Waist. Yet few, perhaps, are familiar with 
the fact that it is said of the Ferris Bros.’ 
factory that nothing like it has ever existed 
in this or any other country. 
This “Model Factory” has white cur¬ 
tains at every window ; it has a bathroom 
for the girls (of whom there are 330) with 
perfect appointments; it has a kitchen 
where tea, milk and sugar are supplied 
free of charge, and soup at three cents per 
bowl; it has a reading and reception room 
carpeted with bright, soft rugs, the mat¬ 
ter on the reading table rivaling that of 
the club man’s library table ; while for 
the pure pleasure of the girls it has a sunny 
corner with piano and window garden, 
where those inclined may sing and dance, 
and sun themselves at noon; in short, its 
employees are treated like wholly civilized 
human beings, and they are said to look 
more like normal students than like fac¬ 
tory girls. The air of neatness which pre¬ 
vails is both surprising and refreshing. A 
special staff Is employed to look after the 
premises, with the thought of anticipating 
the making of litter, rather than that of 
removing it after it Is made. Light and 
sunshine are abundant, each work-room 
having light from all sides, and both man¬ 
ager and girls bring potted plants to enjoy 
it. A poster says courteously to the em¬ 
ployees : “Please help with your fore¬ 
thought to keep things clean and nice. Any 
attention will oblige ferris Bros.” 
With a Friday pay day, careful selection 
of workers, and other especial features, the 
firm have been able to show both the 
beauty of philanthrophy and its commercial 
value, as their method proves a really pay¬ 
ing business investment. 
Lucy Larcom, who wrote so pleasantly of 
life among the Lowell mill girls, might 
find here a delightful theme, and who 
knows but this ideal factory now holds Its 
future Lucy Larcom ? 
TABLE LINEN. 
S this is the season of the year when 
the thrifty housewife usually replen¬ 
ishes her stock of table linen, a few of the 
latest ideas in this direction may afford 
helpful suggestions; for, be it remembered, 
there is as much fashion in the furnishing 
of our homes as in our manner of dress. 
Just now we speak of table linen as con¬ 
sisting of dinner set (for napkins to match 
are essential) lunch cloths and afternoon 
tea cloths. No color is allowable upon the 
first, and no decoration save initials or a 
monogram ; and the embroidery on thenr 
should be white. 
Women of good taste no longer purchase 
table linen by the yard, as the entire effect 
is injured by having a border only at the 
sides. 
The napkins should be seven-eighths of a 
yard square, and with initials in like pat¬ 
tern but smaller than those on the cloth. 
These should be placed at the center of one 
side just above the hem, or in one corner. 
Table linen should always be hemmed by 
hand, and when trimming the edges, ravel- 
lings should be kept for darning purposes. 
Lunch sets may be either of damask, or 
of plain linen, and although colored borders 
are no longer in favor, the napery is al¬ 
ways ornamented in some way. These sets 
Pleasb 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 Castorla, 
When she became Miss, she clung to Castorla, 
When she had Children, she gave them Castorla. 
may be finished with a hem-stitched hem 
two and one half inches wide, or with plain 
or knotted fringe, and nearly all are orna¬ 
mented with one or more rows of drawn 
work of any preferred width. The napkins 
should be five-eighths of a yard square, 
and ornamented to correspond with the 
cloth. 
Tea-cloths are made either square or ob¬ 
long to fit the small tables used for five 
o’clock teas, and these are always finished 
with a hem stitched hem, more or less 
elaborate drawn work, or embroidery in 
either white or colored wash silks or a com¬ 
bination of the two. 
As accessories of the essential table cloth 
and napkins there is an almost endless va¬ 
riety of center-pieces, table runners, carver’s 
cloths, tea cloths and doylies. The center 
pieces are square, the runners eighteen 
inches wide and reaching only to the edge 
when laid lengthwise through the center of 
the table. The tea and carver’s cloths are 
oblong, and doylies are made square, round, 
oval and in many fanciful shapes. 
Hem-stiching, drawn work, and any vari¬ 
ety of embroidery preferred are used in 
ornamenting them. The edges may be 
fringed, hem-stiched, or trimmed with any 
of the heavy machine or hand-made laces. 
If lace is added the corners are always 
turned flat, never fulled. 
Finger-bowl doylies are often finished 
with an embroidered scallop or point at 
the edge, and are eight or nine inches 
square. 
Any of these accesories may be purchased 
ready made, but they can be made with far 
less expense at home. 
New York. KATHERINE B. JOHNSON. 
“ MOTHER TAUGHT US.” 
N TnE Rural New-Yorker of January 
3, Mary Mann, after describing her suc¬ 
cess as a housekeeper, accounts for her abil¬ 
ity by saying : “ I think it is all in the 
bringing up ; mother taught us girls to 
rise early and to have our work well planned 
and done, as far as possible, in the fore¬ 
noon. Then, too, having been taught to 
think our home the dearest spot on earth, 
we had little desire for the back door morn¬ 
ing gossips or, indeed, for any so-called 
‘gaddlngs.’ ” 
I believe she says truly that this was the 
keynote to her success. Said an intimate 
friend of mine to me, a short time ago : 
“ Whatever you do, teach your children to 
pick up and to put away their things and 
to keep them in order. The hardest thing 
I have to contend with is dlsorderliness. 
My mother always picked up, hung up and 
put away for us instead of teaching us to 
do it for ourselves; and now, when I have 
children of my own, so much work and so 
many cares, I have daily to fight myself and 
those around me to keep things in any kind 
of order. I often think how much better I 
might get along, how much more time I 
might have for myself and for my children, 
how much better housekeeper I might be, 
if I had only been taught to put things in 
their places when I was a girl.” 
“ Mother taught us.” Ah, yes, that is the 
keynote of our success or failure in life I 
If mothers could realize that what they are 
teaching their little ones to-day will decide 
not only their future but also that of 
their children’s children; if they could real 
lze that they are educating heads, hearts 
and hands for years of capability, useful¬ 
ness and happiness, or for years of inability, 
dissatisfaction and disappointment that 
are to extend through all eternity, could 
they look lightly or depreciatingly upon 
their duties ? Would they pine for a broader 
ora higher sphere ? 
Pennsylvania. Geraldine germane. 
GOOD COUNTRY FARE FOR SPRING. 
T this time of year, which grandfather 
calls the time between hay and grass, 
we long for a variety to eat; and if we only 
take time by the forelock (as in the cut), 
we can have our longing partly realized. 
Last summer a handful of watercress 
was set out along the edge of an 8x8 foot 
spring, and now we have something almost 
as good as celery to eat. We also find it 
good when prepared like lettuce. 
A nice, soft, white slice of bread eaten 
three times a day for a week will soon 
make the least fastidious long for a change, 
even if it is only a change to a soggy black 
slice. 
Early in the spring we loaded up the 
factotum of the farm with a sack of clean 
wheat, and sent him to the mill with it to 
have it ground on the corn mill; now 
wice a week we bake an ovenful of brown 
or Graham bread, and how we do enjoy a 
bowl of rich milk with this bread for 
supper! 
For breakfast some brown mush eaten 
with thick cream and sugar we find as 
good as oatmeal, although we do not like 
it as well as rolled oats. 
For dinner a pan of nice Graham gems 
is acceptable, and don’t I long for a 
dessert dish of nice, dried apples to eat 
with a buttered gem ? I do not mean the 
dried apples one buys ; they are not fit to 
eat. Every year we dry our supply from 
our early red apples, which ripen in July 
and August, just when the sun is right to 
quickly dry them to a bright, clean color. 
When wanted for use in the spring they 
will cook in 15 minutes, and require very 
little sweetening. But, alas I we were 
destined to have no apples last year. This 
year, however, if the promise of abundant 
fruit given by the blossoms Is fulfilled, we 
shall make ready our usual spring delicacy 
for next spring. 
A dish of strawberry butter or of rasp, 
berries or blackberries for dinner at this 
season amply repays us for the hot hours 
spent last year over the stove in canning 
them. „ FARMER’S GIRL. 
PILLOW COVERS. 
NE fad of last season—a very comfort¬ 
able fad, by the way—pillows, pil 
lows everywhere, heaped on divans, piled 
in corners, laid carelessly in the hammock, 
and on the piazza, chairs and floor and 
steps, seems likely to be repeated, even 
“ more so,” this season. While many sofa 
pillows are still covered with flowered china 
silk, outlined in gold or silver if a more 
elaborate effect is desired, the pillow of the 
latest spring style is the flower pillow. So 
says that authority on fads, the World. 
A pretty one, seen on a Turkish couch, rep¬ 
resented a great purple pansy. The pillow 
itself was made in the shape of the flower. 
The petals of purple satin were sewed on to 
the pillow; the shading was done In em¬ 
broidery silk. Large yellow buttercups and 
any flower that is simple in its structure 
may be used in this way. One almost feels 
as if in a flower garden when four or five of 
these pillows are clustered in a room. The 
black satin pillow in the shape of a huge 
heart with golden arrows and tiny gold 
hearts outlined with gold thread upon it, 
fits nicely Into some corners. An exchange 
says that a pretty and practical pillow cover 
is made of fine twilled linen. The fabric is 
first covered with a waved pattern worked 
in back stitch, preferably In yellow silk. A 
bold pattern is then embroidered over this 
in conventional style, when the despised 
linen material will be found good enough 
for any pillow in any room. The stitched 
background has all the effect of fine quilt¬ 
ing, and it is a pity that work is not more 
frequently done in this style. Some of the 
most beautiful of antique embroideries for 
the fronts of dresses, waistcoats, etc., were 
worked thus upon a quilted material, and 
it is wonderful how very flat a plain back¬ 
ground looks after studying one of these 
quilted pieces. Running, chain, or even 
outline stitch may be used, if preferred to 
the back stitch. 
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