1891 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
871 
Freed ‘for wealth, oft forgets the cradle 
that rocked him, and the motherly care 
that nnrsed him In his Infancy, and 
prompted by the wishes and disrespect of 
a daughter-in-law, joins In the angry tur¬ 
moil that banishes his mother from “home, 
sweet home.” 
If there Is any place on God’s green 
earth wfcere such laws work Injustice, It is 
on the farm ; for, as I have shown, woman 
Is an equal partner In the work, the care 
and the anxie les of life, and should be 
equally so In such rewards as faithful toil 
brings. And the husband, who would do 
but simple justice by the wife who by his 
side has borne the burden and heat of the 
day, will by bequest provide for her sup¬ 
port when disease or old age renders her no 
longer able to work. By self-denial and 
toil, the children have been educated and 
equipped for the battle of life, and whether 
the accumulations of years are much or 
little, the mother who has worked and 
saved, should be secured against want. 
Under the unjust and unequal laws which 
now govern property rights, this is the 
only method of securing the rights which 
belong to an equality of interest, and 
saves to the family and estate the ted¬ 
ious trouble and cost of a settlement in a 
surrogate’s court. 
For the conditions of an equal partner¬ 
ship the mother must have an equal legal 
right to the children; to the home that 
shelters them ; to the joint earnings of co¬ 
partnership ; and to be the sole guardian 
and protector to the family and estate at 
the death of the husband as the father is 
when left a widower. 
Ex-Gov. Robie, Master of the Maine 
State Grange, in his annual address, said : 
“ Woman occupies a prominent position on 
the home farm, equal to its distinguished 
master, and as matron she discharges im¬ 
portant duties which no other person can 
do as well; hence, in the economy of the 
Grange, we find that the equality of the 
two sexes is fully recognized. The Grange 
door swings inward to the gentle touch of 
woman, as to the ruder knocking of man. 
While we admit the justice of the principle 
of equality, let us not forget its logical 
consequence and not cease our efforts, until 
the American woman shall enjoy all the 
rights of American citizenship.” 
So, on the farm, and in the home, where 
a true partnership exists, there will be not 
only tquallty of responsibilities and duties, 
but equality of rights and privileges ; the 
accumulations will ba equally the property 
of husband and wife ; and as in every per¬ 
fect, well-organized human being, two eyes, 
two ears, two feet, two hands, are neces¬ 
sary for the best performance of duty, so 
in every well-organized household, are two 
heads equally important, each acting in 
harmony with the other, for the best at¬ 
tainment of all that Is worth living for in 
this world. mbs. w. c gifford. 
New York. 
FOR THE UJdRlSi’MAS TREE. 
PRETTY trifle to adorn the Christ¬ 
mas tree or accompany one’s holiday 
greeting to a little friend is shown In Fig. 
319. These pansies are made of .chamois 
leather and may be finished in several dif¬ 
ferent ways. The cut shows both the ap¬ 
pearance of the article when finished and, 
in fainter, dotted lines, the reverse, on the 
back side; for the shape Is cut whole and 
then folded across the top of the petals to 
form of the one piece both front and back 
of the flower. One’s taste may be consulted 
in determining the size ; three Inches across 
is none too large. Make a paper pattern 
the desired size, and by that cut the 
chamois. 
Fold the blossoms and tint it lightly to 
heighten the resemblance to a panby. Oil 
paints are the best for the purpose owing 
to the tendency of water to stiffen the 
chamois ; but water colors worked with a 
rather dry brush succeed very well, and a 
very pretty effect can be obtained with a 
pen and violet ink. For the upper petals 
use purple or lake If paint is used; the 
three lower ones are simply shaded with a 
In writing to advertisers please always 
mention Thb Rural. 
When Baby was sick, we gave her Castorla, 
When she was a Child, sue cried for Castorla, 
When she became Miss, she clung to Castorla. 
When she had OhUdren, she gave them Castorla 
little yellow and faint green, with a touch 
of the dark color at the base of the center 
petal and at the outer shadings of those at 
the sides. The center should be green with 
a patch of orange below, and the dark 
blotches and rays black. On the back tint 
the petals to conform with those already 
done, painting the stem and calyx green. 
It is not desirable to apply a heavy coat of 
paint, concealing the chamois, but rather 
to tint the surface, blending one’s work 
with the pretty natural color of the skin. 
A few moments’ experimenting on a scrap 
of the chamois will show how to obtain the 
best effect. In applying oil colors the paint 
may be used as it comes from the tubes, de¬ 
pending upon a lighter or heavier coat for 
the different shades. The tinting will be 
found less difficult than It sounds, even to 
the inexperienced. 
To make your pansy into a pretty pen¬ 
wiper cut three leaves of chamois the size of 
the blossoms when folded, bind across the 
top with No. 1 ribbon, olive or green, and 
after securing them to the inside by a few 
stitches, tie as shown in the illustration. 
A pansy made a trifle larger and fiaished 
with the ribbon, but without inside leaves, 
makes a very pretty form of that indispen¬ 
sable article to the wearer of spectacles, a 
polisher for the glasses. 
The little girl just learning to sew will 
like hers best as a needle book; in which 
case cut leaves of flannel somewhat smaller 
than the chamois, and work about the 
edges with fine embroidery silk in button¬ 
hole stitch. Arrange them evenly and but¬ 
ton-hole stitch the three together across the 
straight edge, afterwards tacking on the 
chamois cover with a few stitches in the 
fold. Instead of adding ribbon as for the 
penwiper, have two pieces for tying strings 
to fasten the little book when closed. Be 
sure to buy a paper of needles in assorted 
sizes and insert them neatly in the flannel 
leaves. “ Xmas ’91 ” may be printed with 
pen or brush on the inside of one cover 
and the initials of the recipient inside the 
other. 
A style of work bag effectively made of 
soft figured silk or even of a dainty variety 
of flowered sateen is formed of two discs 
united by a puff. Cut from card-board two 
circles 3% inches in diameter and cover ex¬ 
actly as for the little, flat pocket pin cush¬ 
ions ; for the nuff a strip 30 inches long and 
five broad is needed. Hem each end and 
work a button-hole in the center of each 
hem. Gather, and overhand each side of 
the strip entirely around a covered card 
board circle. Have but one drawing string, 
using a yard of three-quarter inch ribbon. 
A loop of the ribbon is pulled through one 
button-hole and the ends through the other, 
after which they are tied In a pretty bow. 
(See Fig. 320.) 
Being granted a glimpse into a friend’s 
work basket, not long since, I found sev¬ 
eral unusually pretty things in the course 
of construction. One was a ca:e for photo¬ 
graphs. Two pieces of card-board each meas¬ 
uring eight by 5 }4 inches were smoothly 
covered with chamois leather and lined 
with yellow surah, the chamois drawn well 
over the edges and the surah neatly hem¬ 
med on to it. One of these had a charming 
design in purple pansies painted upon the 
chamois, the other was left plain. A row 
of brass rings covered with crochet In yel¬ 
low knitting silk joined the two pieces to¬ 
gether around the two sides and one end, 
the other end being left open that the pho¬ 
tographs might slip in and out. As the 
rings were an inch in diameter there was 
room for quite a number of pictures. To 
facilitate drawing them out a yellow ribbon 
22 inches long was sewed to one side of the 
case midway of the opening. The pictures 
when pushed in carried this ribbon with 
them in such a way that when the free end, 
which was fringed and hung from the 
opening, was gently pulled the pictures 
were drawn out. The case would have been 
almost equally pretty covered with mahog¬ 
any-colored plush and decorated with a 
bow and diagonal band of handsome rib¬ 
bon. 
An apron any one might be glad to num¬ 
ber among her Christmas treasures, was 
made of linen scrim finished with a three 
inch hem across the bottom and formed 
into a casing at the top through which ran 
sufficient pink ribbon to pass about the 
waist and tie prettily. On one lower cor¬ 
ner wild roses, a luxuriant rampant spray, 
were painted with Windsor and Newton 
oil paints. I was assured that aprons simi¬ 
larly decorated, had been washed, carefully 
of course and had endured the operation 
without injury. 
Another exceedingly attractive trifle was 
a case for calling cards. For this a strip of 
chamois 8% inches long and five wide was 
lined with yellow faille. Both chamois and 
silk were turned in all about the edges, 
basted together and stitched on the sewing 
machine with yellow sewing silk. Across 
one end and corner of the chamois was 
painted a wreath of dear little clover blos¬ 
soms. This strip of lined and decorated 
chamois became a card case when, laying 
it smoothly, with the lining up, the two 
ends were folded over into itself for a depth 
of IX inch and tacked in place along the 
sides with invisible stitches. Two pockets 
for cards were thus formed, and another 
fold bringing the two pockets together, 
closed the case. 
It will be seen that my friend was an 
artist, but can’t half the girls paint nowa¬ 
days, and every one do a bit of art lining or 
embroidery, often quite as pretty as paint- 
ing ? P P 
Connecticut. 
In writing to advertisers please always 
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in its 
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Do you know 
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