THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
783 
belt, and divide in three, making one 
middle and two side breadths. Then 
stitch in a broad hem and seven tucks 
one-half inch wide and close together ; 
also hem the sides. Carefully double 
the apron, and cut the top tuck to the 
stitching in the center of the middle 
breadth, turn the raw edges under to 
make half points, and sew lightly to the 
stitching on the under side of the tuck. 
Cut the second tuck twice, one inch 
apart, directly under the half points 
above, turn under again, and sew the 
raw edges to the stitching for the half 
points and to themselves for the solid 
point. Cut the third tuck three times, 
continuing till each tuck is made into 
points, which will make large points of 
the smaller close and open ones. For an 
apron 48 inches wide, make groups 10 
inches apart measuring from the top 
tuck. The strings may be finished in the 
same way, five tucks being sufficient for 
a large point. It doesn’t take so long to 
do it as it does to tell it.” 
“I think I understand how to make 
the points, but 1 wish I knew how 
to make one common apron for Aunt 
Lydia. She thinks we young girls can¬ 
not make anything useful or sensible.” 
“ I’ll show you my clothespin apron, 
and you may copy it. I keep it hanging 
in the woodhouse, and then it is always 
ready for Monday. It requires 1)^ yard 
of ticking. Cut one breadth nearly 
three-quarters of a yard long, and an¬ 
other about three-eighths, using the re¬ 
mainder for strings and belt. llem the 
upper edge of the short breadth, stitch it 
firmly to the lower edge of the other 
breadth, so that it will be right side out 
when turned up for pockets. Nextslitch 
it up and down twice to the sides and 
center, making two deep pockets, put on 
the belt and strings, marking clothes¬ 
pins in outline on the belt, and you may 
warrant it to last five years and please 
Aunt Lydia.” 
“There ! Aunt Nell,” said Susie, “I’ve 
got ideas enough if I use them, and I’m 
going home to try.” moli,ik wiggins. 
THE VALUE OF EDUCATION. 
W HET 11 Eli or no, a daughter on the 
farm is a better daughter if edu¬ 
cated, depends greatly on where she re¬ 
ceived her education, and on how much 
she has acquired. “ A little learning is 
a dangerous thing,” sometimes. Many 
things are learned in the schools not set 
down in the text books. If she be sent 
to the kind of girls’ school largely in 
vogue, where a man who makes his liv¬ 
ing directly out of the soil, instead of 
indirectly, is referred to as “ only a 
fahmah,” and considered but a mud¬ 
sill of creation, she will probably com6 
home with more or less contempt for 
everything connected with farm life. 
Much depends, too, on the opinion her 
family have of education. If they glory 
in the lack of refinement that true edu¬ 
cation brings, and sneer at book lore, 
and at those who get their living by 
brains alone, (the successful farmer uses 
both brain and brawn), the daughter will 
probably be neither happy nor good when 
in the bosom of her family. This opin¬ 
ion is based on facts deduced from per¬ 
sonal observation. The usual object in 
educating a daughter, hereabouts at 
least, is to enable her the better to “earn 
something,” usually by teaching. The 
sacrifices often made to give an educa¬ 
tion to the daughter of a household, are 
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, 
The contest for those nine valuable 
prizes closes December 15. There is yet 
time to win one. You get the cash com¬ 
missions any way. 
repaid by the results quite as often as 
those made for a son. 
The discontent often observable in a 
farmhouse son or daughter, after return¬ 
ing home from a few terms in school, is 
not due to the so-called education so 
much as to the difference existing be¬ 
tween the daily habits and customs of 
town and of farm life. Much of the 
following after—a long way after—the 
fashions of the “ 400 ” on the part of the 
great middle class in towns is, of course, 
absurd; this no one of sense denies. 
But we are also bound to admit that 
much of the rudeness existing in some 
farmhouses, is also out of place and un¬ 
necessary. But that branch of the sub¬ 
ject is too wide to be taken up here. 
A love of books of the right sort, and 
of education of the right kind, never 
made a farmhouse daughter or any one 
else, worse, but better. I am not a 
“paper farmer,” but have lived on a 
farm from the cradle to gray hairs, and 
know whereof I speak. 
JANET MCKERWIN. 
PATTERNS FOR R. N.-Y. READERS. 
Write the order for patterns separate 
from other matter, give bust measure 
and pattern number, and enclose 10 cents. 
Each pattern is complete with instruc- 
young California artist, who has long 
felt that in her own case, at least, there 
was need for dress reform, has by grad¬ 
ual changes, accustomed the inhabitants 
of her village home to short skirts with¬ 
out giving a violent shock to their prej¬ 
udices. From the ordinary length she 
reduced the skirts harlf an inch daily, 
until they barely reached the knee. 
Leggins of russet leather or corduroy, 
cover the lower part of her legs, and her 
costumes, which are tailoi*-made, are be¬ 
coming and even graceful. Such a re¬ 
form suit is especially convenient to 
Miss McCormick when she is engaged in 
painting cattle.” 
|tti;&tcUancou;si gKlvfvtii&iuji, 
IN writing to advertisers, please always mention 
The Rural New-Yorker. 
Cures 
OTHERS, 
6235.— -PRIMCEGG GOWN, 
tions for cutting the garment and put¬ 
ting together. 
6235. Ladies' Princess Gown. 
The closing is invisible on the left 
shoulder and down the edges of the 
front gore. Stylish full puffs are ar¬ 
ranged over fitted sleeves, the wrists 
being finished with frills of lace, bands 
and rosettes of ribbon. The godet full¬ 
ness in the back results from the shaping 
below the waist line, the gores being 
lined with grass cloth to give proper 
stiffness. The mode admits of many 
variations, being suitable for any ma¬ 
terial, and may be made up as a walking 
dress, tea gown, or wrapper, the material 
and decoration used making all the dif¬ 
ference. Pattern 6235 is cut in six sizes, 
viz.: 32, 34, 36, 38, 40 and 42 inches, bust 
measure. 
ODDS AND ENDS. 
Baby’s First Shoes. —Who says that 
sentiment is going ? Or that women have 
less of it regarding their homes or chil¬ 
dren ? A firm of electrotypers advertise 
that they have a process whereby they 
cover with a heavy coating of metal, 
silver, copper or brass, the baby’s first 
pair of shoes, that they may be preserved 
as a memento. That it pays to advertise 
for such work, shows that the baby still 
gets its share of sentiment in this world. 
Getting Them Used to It. —Dress re¬ 
form must move gently. One young 
woman has gradually and gracefully 
adopted short skirts. Harper’s Bazar 
tells how she achieved it without shock¬ 
ing her neighbors ; ‘ ‘ Miss McCormick, a 
MOTHERS .—Be sure to use “Mrs. Wins¬ 
low’s Soothing Syrup ” for your children 
while Teething. It is the Best.— Adm. 
WILL 
Cure You. 
AYER’S 
Sarsaparilla 
MAKES 
THE f f^FAIR^y \ 
WEAK 
STRONG. 
The Old Arm Chair, 
THE LOUNGE, DESK or BUGGY 
CUSHION'S, should be covered with 
PANTASOTE. It looks, feels and wears like 
leather. Costs half as much. These stores 
and many others sell it: M. J. Grossman, 
58 E. 13th Street; R. Weiden, 30 Bond Street, 
New York. A. Dutton; Jordan, Mar.sh & 
Co., Boston. Wanamaker; De Turck, Bas¬ 
sett & Co., Philadelphia; Lussky, Payne* 
Co., Chicago; C. L. Greeno,Cincinnati; Wm. 
Barr Dry Goods Co., St. Louis. Send for 
FREE SAMPLES to 
PANTASOTE LEATHER COMPANY 
'Wauerooms; 39 Leonard Street, New York. 
Mills : Passaic, N. J. 
cn D UADnV ABINGDON, ILL., Munu- 
CUi 111 imHU I y facturer of Black Cattle 
Coats, Robes, Gloves, Rugs, Caps, etc. 
rOURNAMEONi 
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ENTERPRISE 
-•a-TINNED-en A 
Working Harness 
will last longer, be tough, won’t gall 
the horses, and is pleasant to handle il 
oiled with 
Vacuum 
Leather Oil. 
Nothing so good for women’s and 
children’s and men’s shoes. 
25 c. worth is a fair trial—and your money back 
if you want it—a swob with each can. 
For p.imphlet. free, How TO Take Cakb oh 
Lkathkk,” seiiu to 
VACUUM OIL CO.. Rochester, N Y. 
SAVE \ YOUR FUEL 
By using our (stove pipe) RADIATOR. 
It has 120 Cross Tubes where 48C6 
sq. in. of Iron get intensely hot, thus 
making ONE stove or furnace do the 
work of TWO. Send postal for proofs 
from prominent men. 
To introduce our Radiator, the first 
order from each neighborhood filled 
at WHOLESALE price, thus lecuring 
an agency. Write at once. 
ROCHESTER RADIATOR CO., 
Rochester, N, Y. 
COOK’S FLOUR BIN 
WITH SIFTER. 
New, Convenient and Saving Device for 
Holding Flour. Built in three sizes, to 
hold 25, .50 and 100 pounds of flour. 
Send for Special Price to Agents. 
COOK FLOUR BIN CO., 
HOMER, MICH. 
GEARHART’S FAMILY KNITTER. 
A Knits a stocking heal and too in 
ML ten minutes. Knits everything 
BjlHHffiWfffll&m I required in the household from 
1^3 jn I I homespun or factory,wool or cot* 
ton yarns. Most practical knitter on 
I the market. A child can operate It 
DURABLE. 
PRICE H Satisfaction guaranteed. Agents 
S8.DO^ii2w ’ wanted. I’or particulars and sam> 
pie work, address, 
J, E. GEARUAllT, Clearfield, 1 
AGENTS WANTED 
g .l our maciilneiii the locality where 
live. We furnish the work and 
you how to get a SINGER 
SS.OO Sewinft Hachioe 
ABSOLUTELY ”,ru'.a! 
rnnp you can live at liomeand 
r il lltli make ten times ordinary 
wages. »Ve have machines rang¬ 
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—the only Manufiioturers selling 
in this way. We ship the machines on 30 days trial 
wlthontonecentln advance. Don’tfail towritetoday. 
CHICAGO SEWING MACHINE CO., 
23 North Halsted St., Chicago, III. 
Farm and Fireside says : 
S e only Meat Chopper 
er saw tliat we would 
house room. It has 
oven siicli a very use- 
ul machine that we 
want our readers to 
enjoy its benefits 
with us.” 
FOR CHOPPING i 
Sausage Meat, L 
Mince Meat, L 
Hamburg Steak Q 
for Dyspeptics, B 
Tripe, &c., <Ssc. 1 
For Sale by the 
Hardware Trade. 
Guaranteed 
to CHOP, 
Not GRIND 
the Meat. 
The Enlerpriss UTg 
Third &, Dauphin Sts., Phiiada^^^^ 
SEND FOR CATALOGUE, FREE. ^ 
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^ No 10 aPT American 
^ Agriculturist says ; 
.$3.00. “ We have given this 
f Meat Chopper a thorough 
trial with most satlsfac- 
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anything of the kind made 
In either hemisphere.” 
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, A We have the largest manufactory 
** in the world, from wliich we sell 
direct to the consumer at whole¬ 
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of the dealer and the commissions 
of the agents. We furnish a lirsb- 
class Organ, war- ,, 
book, for only %lJ a. 
No money required until Instru- , 
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your own house. Sold on lustal- I 
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We positively guarantee every 
Organ and Piano twenty years. . .. 
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by mail same day letter Is received. ( 
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will sell tlie first Piano of m 1 y ^ Free. ' 
our make in a place for only 1 if Bcgular price, 1350 . 00 . ( 
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$175 
Beethoven Piano Organ Co., 
P.O.Box 626 -Washington, N. J. i 
