1894 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
cents for making’ one, and truly it is 
■well worth it. This work for my hus¬ 
band does not come every season, as I do 
the work thoroughly and use neat, 
strong materials. 
For myself, I make the union under¬ 
wear of cotton or cambric material. I 
have never found the union suits ready¬ 
made except in jersey goods. I make 
skirts of seersucker, cambric, and cotton 
goods; they wear longer than ready¬ 
made. For morning wear at home, old 
cambric foundation skirts, neatly bound, 
are cool and just as good as any. I have 
made my dresses for the last few years. 
I make a good allowance for seams when 
cutting out, and then try on until success 
is assured. Some day I hope to own one 
of the nice dress-forms which are so use¬ 
ful in home dressmaking. 
In buying materials, if one is careful 
to buy goods that wear well and do not 
easily fade in the washing, a dress will 
look neat as long as there is any left of it 
to wear. The price of one dress made 
by a dressmaker, would pay for goods 
for three or four, if made at home. I 
buy either plain goods or those with 
small figures, and then they are suitable 
for making over for a child. This rule 
applies to woolen, as well as to ging¬ 
hams, prints, etc. In buying a ready¬ 
made dress, there are no pieces to repair 
with, make new sleeves, etc., and I find 
that they soon need mending ; the stitch¬ 
ing is not nearly so neat, and the button¬ 
holes will not stay fastened. 
In doing the sewing for the little ones, 
one will find the most opportunities to 
practice good judgment. I am always 
on the lookout for new ideas, to save 
time in the making of garments, and I 
test them to find how much they are 
worth. 
I buy stockings for my own use, and 
when they come to mending, cut them 
over for the younger children. Drawers 
may be made at a cost of 4 cents per 
pair, and will do good service for three 
children and still be quite good. Those 
bought ready-made are worn out in a 
short time, and are never as satisfactory 
as the homemade. I buy under-waists 
cheaper ready-made. Skirts are made at 
home, and wear much better than pur¬ 
chased ones; this applies to nightdresses 
also. Of course, I cannot trim with as 
much embroidery, but all are neatly and 
prettily made and finished. Shirts are 
either cut over from larger ones or 
bought. 
I make all the little dresses, and find 
it pays for several reasons. Unless one 
pays pretty good prices for ready-made, 
the stitching is poorly done. Then if 
made at home, one has pieces for new 
sleeves and mending. Remnants may 
easily be used, odds and ends of trim¬ 
ming work in, and if a good pattern is 
used, and the work well done, the little 
ones may be neatly and nicely dressed. 
Little reefers and Gretchen coats are not 
hard to make, if attention is paid to the 
finishing, and the seams are well bound 
and pressed. The flannel, or goods of 
like material from old dresses lined with 
canton flannel, make warm cloaks for a 
child. Bonnets are cheaper ready-made, 
unless one has a stock of good remnants 
of silk and ribbons. 
I find that trousers made at home will 
outwear two pairs of ready-made, and 
the reason is not far to seek. I line en¬ 
tirely with good lining, and place patches 
on the lining where the most wear will 
come, and can afford a better quality of 
cloth for the suit if I do the making. 
When Baby was sick, we gave her Castoria, 
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, 
Every reader should tell one friend, 
at least, that The Rural New-Yorker, 
will be sent for the remainder of this 
year for 25e. How many have you told ? 
For 82 last year, I bought material 
enough for a nice jacket and three pairs 
of trousers. This suit my little boy of 
seven years has worn as a school suit for 
one year, and it can be mended and worn 
as a play suit for quite a while yet. 
Shirt wais+s and blouses of flannel of 
much better goods may be made for the 
cost of ready-made ones. Stockings, 
shirts and overcoats I usually buy ready¬ 
made. Nightdresses are made for the 
boy of unbleached sheeting, medium 
quality, and wear well. 
For the little three-year-old and the 
baby, everything is homemade. Last 
year I made eight warm suits for little 
three-year-old, out of what one neighbor 
called “mat rags.” Old linings were 
used also, and they were worn and 
washed every week, and kept him warm 
and neat the entire season. I crochet 
hoods and Turk caps for both the boys 
and girls, skirts and other woolen arti¬ 
cles, and find that they last with good 
care for several years. 
Ten dollars will go a long ways in the 
purchase of materials for an infant’s 
layette, which, if spent in the purchase 
of ready-made articles, would make one 
wonder where the money had disap¬ 
peared. The quality of material may 
be much better, and the work may be 
better finished at home, and will be more 
satisfactory unless one can afford quite 
expensive articles. There are certain 
6186. 
Ladies’ House Gown. 
seasons of the year when white goods, 
prints, ginghams, etc., may be purchased 
at little cost. I try to purchase at such 
times, if possible, and thus afford more 
than would be possible at higher prices. 
I do the sewing without assistance, and 
have to fit it in between the hours spent 
over the housework. My washing is done 
out, for I think it much cheaper to hire 
the washing, than it is to hire the sewing 
done outside of the home. 
Seamstresses and dressmakers will not 
bother with the odds and ends, and the 
remaking of old materials, and the 
mother of a growing family, who has to 
save expense, must do this or go without. 
If our farm were paid for, I probably 
would hire a seamstress part of the time, 
and a dressmaker for my own clothes; 
but I certainly would not buy the ready¬ 
made goods, even if the money were 
plenty. My daughter shall be taught 
both millinery and dressmaking. I was 
never taught, and therefore the work is 
doubly hard. sergia wierne. 
.... H. W. Marie in The Outlook : “Be¬ 
hind every bit of genuine art there lies 
a training, always arduous, sometimes 
rigorous to the point of pain. There is 
no greater popular fallacy than the im¬ 
pression that men of letters and artists 
of all kinds are men of leisure.” 
Hothers. —Be sure to use “ Mrs. Wins¬ 
low’s Soothing Syrup ” for your children 
while Teething. It is the Best.— Adfo. 
PATTERNS FOR R. N.-Y. READERS. 
These patterns retail for from 25 to 40 
cents each, but we can furnish them to 
subscribers only, at 10 cents each. The 
patterns are the latest styles, every pat¬ 
tern is complete and guaranteed to be per¬ 
fect. Write the order separate from 
other matter, give bust measure and pat¬ 
tern number, and enclose 10 cents. Full 
instructions accompany every pattern. 
We do this for the accommodation of 
subscribers, and patterns will not be sent 
to nonsubacribers. Any two patterns 
given to old subscribers who send one 
new subscription. 
6186. Ladies’ House Gown. 
The body portions of this comfortable 
wrapper are shirred with a heading on 
to the round yoke front and back, the 
loose flowing lines falling gracefully to 
the feet. These, with the full puffs over 
fitted sleeves, are its special features. 
Decorations of lace, insertion, ribbon or 
embroidery may be used according to 
the occasion for which it is intended, 
and the material selected. Pattern 618(5 
is cut in six sizes, viz : 32 34, 36, 38, 40 
and 42 inches bust measure. 
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will heart’g-ease ever bloom; 
The busr mind has no time to think 
Of sorrow or care or gloom; 
And anxlons thoughts mav be swept away 
As we bravely wield a broom. 
—Louisa M Alcott. 
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runs across an old loveletter he wrote to 
his wife, he always laughs, but his wife 
cries.” 
... .Washington Star : “ ‘ Er fault¬ 
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t’rest from ’is inves’ment dan any uddah 
man in de wurl’. He can stah’t wid 
nuffin’ an’ hab trouble ter las’ him his 
whole life.’ ” 
In writing to advertisers, please always mention 
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Everybody’s 
Shoes 
should be kept oiled with 
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It saves money—the shoes last longer; 
Doctor’s bills—wet feet. Harness needs 
it also, and more of it at a time, 
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each can. 
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Send lOc for postage on samples of our new fallj)aper 
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If you want paper next si)ring send 10c. postage, now, 
and we will send samples of tlieso i>rlze designs March 
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Cleii. Agts., PUla., Pa. 
THEiMARY JANE DISHWASHER 
Saves two-ttalrds the time, labor and 
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AND 
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