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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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CUTTING OVER KNIT UNDERWEAR. 
NIT underwear, gene v ally wears 
out only in places, while the rest 
of the garment is good. When there are 
small folks to clothe, it is sometimes well 
to cut over these garments for them. 
Cut waists of the material, make with 
long sleeves, and finish around the neck 
with a feather stitching. Sew the draw¬ 
ers to the waist, thus making a little 
combination garment. If bands are 
needed for the wrists and it seems worth 
while, these may be knit on. by crochet¬ 
ing a close row of double crochet around 
the wrist, and take up the crochet 
stitches with knitting needles and knit 
as long as desired. Seam one and knit 
one, or, seam two and knit two plain, is 
a good way to knit wrists or ankles to 
these little made-over garments. 
Little skirts, too. may be made from 
pieces of good knit underwear. Make 
the right size and shape, and then finish 
the bottom with a row of feather stitch¬ 
ing done with Asiatic twisted embroid¬ 
ery silk. This washes and wears very 
much longer than saxony would do ; be¬ 
sides, it looks much nicer. If desirable, 
a crochet edging might be made to finish 
little skirts. If these garments arc 
stitched on the sewing machine, stretch 
the material, and this will make the seam 
elastic and prevent the thread from 
breaking. 
In families where the times are not 
pinching too hard, little economies help 
a good deal, and it is worth while to 
know how to make the best of every¬ 
thing. If one does not need to cut over 
for her own family, give to some one who 
does. No sensible minded woman who 
has a needy family, would resent such a 
gift, or seek to return it like a woman of 
whom I heard. It seems that a neighbor 
wanted to do something to make a poor 
family more comfortable ; the woman 
did not have children of her own, and 
did have a good many clothes that would 
go a long ways towards making- the win¬ 
ter endurable to a number of children in 
this neighbor’s family. So the childless 
woman made up a generous bundle and 
sought to give it with tact to the neigh¬ 
bor. She thought she had succeeded, 
but, when Christmas time came, that 
poor woman sent in such a lot of gifts, 
costing a good deal of money, that the 
philanthropic woman rather determined 
that she had received full value for the 
cast-off clothing, and was sure the poor 
family had crippled themselves to do this 
giving. This is not the right way to do; 
if one gives kindly, receive it kindly, and 
don't try to give it back again, unless 
amply able to do so. Even then it is 
very poor taste, to send a gift in quick 
return fur one received. 
ROSE SEKI.YE-MILLER. 
THE FARMER’S WIFE UPHELD. 
N Tiie R. N.-Y. of November 3, 1894, 
May Maple speaks of the great lack 
of conveniences which she has noticed in 
the average farmhouse kitchen, and the 
expedients resorted to by the 1 -stingy 
wife ” to get along with what she had. 
After an experience of 25 years, I have 
never seen anything of the sort ; but 
there is a great difference in farmers 
and farmers’ wives. I scarcely think one 
could visit a farmhouse in western New 
York, where the kitchen is not supplied 
with as many conveniences as the family 
means will permit. Perhaps there is an 
occasional family where, when the butter 
bowl was bruken, the good housewife 
had to work her butter in a stone jar, at 
the same time remarking that, had a 
similar accident occurred outdoors, the 
horses would be hitched up and driven 
20 miles to town that the damage might 
be repaired. Farmers’ wives are no 
more willing to get along with make¬ 
shifts” than other women, and it is by 
ascribingsuch qualities to them, thatcity 
folks hold them in such cheap repute. 
MOTHERS. — Re sure to use ‘‘Mrs. Wins¬ 
low’s Soothing Syrup” for your children 
while Teething. It is the Rest.— Adv. 
The average country housewife is as 
anxious to do her work well, and in the 
shortest possible time, as any one. and 
will often deny herself parlor luxuries 
that she may have kitchen necessities. 
A lady, who was spending the past sum¬ 
mer with me. went into town to dine 
with a fashionable friend. As they sat 
down to dinner, the hostess remarked. 
“ You won t mind a few flies, seeing that 
you have just come from a farm where 
they just swarm with them.” 
“ Why, what do you mean ? ” said my 
friend, and the lady replied, “Why, 1 
have always read that farmhouses swarm 
with tlies.” She did not know, she had 
read it. and so she did not think that a 
farmhouse ever had its screen doors and 
other appliances to make the house com¬ 
fortable. A New York lady entering a 
house near us. was surprised to find that 
it was lighted by gas. Had she, too, read 
that we still use candles in the country ? 
Farmers’ wives may not swell the list of 
kitchen patents, but I hold that we do 
all in our power to lessen our already 
too laborious duties by the very best 
means which we cun command, auiow. 
PEN POTPOURRI. 
Life’s shadows fluctuate; God’s love does not, 
And His love is unchanged, when it changes our 
lot- —Owe.i Meredith. 
....Ephraim Peabody : “One thing is 
certain, that if you desire improvement 
in anything, it will never come to you 
accidentally. It must begin in a distinct, 
resolved purpose to make a change for 
the better.” 
... .Literary Digest : “ But, if woman 
is no longer man’s equal ; n force, she is 
superior in other qualities, and among 
these is that tact which enables her, 
while leaving the reins in man's hands, 
to exercise a decisive influence on the 
course to be pursued.” 
Swekt3 to the Sweet. —There is one 
custom common enough among many 
people, says Dr. Cyrus Edson in the 
Ladies’ Home Journal, which is to the 
last degree reprehensible; that is, giv¬ 
ing candy to babies in arms. Children 
of 12 months or under are very subject 
to acidity of the stomach, and candy 
will produce this invariably. There¬ 
fore, when 1 see a woman giving a piece 
of candy to a baby. 1 always think what 
a good example there is before me of 
being kind only to be cruel, to reverse 
the saying. Babies do not need candy, 
it does them the greatest harm, and it is 
as cruel to give it to them as it would be 
to squeeze their tender flesh between 
pincers—more so, in fact, because the 
resultant pain has much greater duration. 
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Strange 
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Vacuum Leather Oil is best. Get a can 
at a harness- or shoe-store, 25 c a half¬ 
pint to $ 1.25 a gallon ; book *’ llow to 
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free ; use enough to find out; if you 
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the whole of your money. 
Sold only iti cans, to make sure of fair dealing 
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VACUUM OIL COMPANY, Rochester, N. Y. 
Very 
fortunate 
for you 
Overman 
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Midlen-saminon Wat I > aper Co. Limited, 
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Carriage, 
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Phaeton. $Sy 50. 
Itoggy, $55. 
DY IlClilfS this patent REFLEC- 
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Hook Shoe Buttons, 20c.; Indestructible 
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AGENTS WANT ED 
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AND 
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AGENTS WANTED. 
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