THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
SYSTEM IN COOKING. 
L ACK of system and exactnesss in 
the cooking 1 causes more trouble 
than in any other branch of the house¬ 
work, for it affects not only the pleasure 
of the family, but seriously endangers 
its health. The old saying about the 
way to a man’s heart, is as true now as 
it was many years ago, and while it is 
not necessary to a man’s happiness that 
his meals be elaborate or costly, it is 
•necessary that the food be well cooked 
and carefully served at proper and regu¬ 
lar hours. 
There is the exceptional cook who has 
belt. Pattern No. 6550 is cut in four 
sizes, for girls of 6 , 8 , 10 and 12 years of 
age. _ 
PRINTED PATCHWORK. 
We live together years and years, 
And leave unsounded still 
Each other’s springs of hopes and fears. 
Each other’s depths of will; 
We live together day by day, 
And some chance look or tone 
Lights up with instantaneous ray 
An inner world unknown. — Houghton. 
... .Ram’s Horn : ! ‘ The world is full of 
people ready to do good, but most of 
them are in no hurry to make a start.” 
_T. W. IIigginson in Ladies’ Home 
no system about her work, never weighs Journal : “ I trace to my mother’s 
or measures any of her materials, “goes direct influence three leading motives of 
imagine us wonders just because we had 
gone through college ; and when I met 
a dear little girl that thought I knew 
everything—why, it just keeled me right 
over ; it was a feeling I had no idea of. 
And the college woman answered : 
“ I will betray something to you. Lots 
of us are just as unreformed as you ; we 
want just as much to look up to our hus¬ 
bands as you want to be looked up to. 
Only, of course, the more we know, the 
harder it is to find somebody to meet 
the want. Probably the equal marriage 
is really the ideal one, and everybody 
will come to prefer it some day. But. 
personally, I like men to be superior to 
me ; only I’ll tell you what I don’t like 
or measures any of her materials, goes direct influence three leading motives ot in thera . t ^ e w i s h to keep ahead of us 
by guess” as she expresses it, and yet, her youngest son’s life—the love of per- hy holding us back, like spoiled children 
by some instinct, gets everything just sonal liberty, of religious freedom, and thafc want to be given the game, and 
right and makes all her cooking deli- Q f the equality of the sexes.” then admired for their skill. If men 
cious. But she is certainly the exception .Herbert Spencer ; “ Most people would encourage us to do our very best, 
that proves the rule that system and c t rea d f ar more the social frown which an d then do still better themselves, it 
then admired for their skill. If men 
would encourage us to do our very best, 
and then do still better themselves, it 
accuracy are fully as essential to good f Q ]j ows the doing of something conven- ought to be good for civilization.” 
cooking as they are to any science or 
art. The majority of women who follow 
this plan will make lamentable failures, 
three-fourths of the time. The excep¬ 
tional woman may have that quick per¬ 
ception and nicety of judgment that 
stands her in stead of weights and meas- 
tionally wrong, than they do the qualms 
of conscience which follow the doing of 
something intrinsically wrong.” 
....Dr. Parkiiurst in Ladies’ Home 
Journal : “ Obedience is worth more 
than geography, and runs deeper and 
reaches higher than arithmetic or the 
ures, but even she will find more satis- , . ° . ... ... 
1 . classics. It is a thing a child will never 
faction in accuracy an,l system if she j prob ably, unless he learns it at 
once forms that habit, while the ord.- the beginning of life.” 
nary woman will find no satisfaction in 
any other method. In the dairy work • • • -Uaryot Holt Cahoon in New York 
Recorder: “When we have engrafted 
ft strength into our daughters, sufficient 
to make them the standard; when, while 
standing upright, they demand of the 
men of their generation that they shall 
stand so morally and mentally, as well 
as physically stalwart, that the young 
women may still look up to them, we 
shall find splendid results.” 
.... Ladies’ Home Companion : “To 
follow etiquette closely, is by no means 
to be polite. One can follow a code of 
rules governing forms and customs, and 
still be excessively rude. Any one can 
follow fads and fancies, and imitate in 
manner and dress those who are always 
up to date in style, but to be polite is a 
thing within yourself, and never absents 
itself from you, no matter what the ex¬ 
isting circumstances may be. Different 
countries have their own distinct rules 
governing etiquette, but all countries 
6550—GIRLS’ COSTUME have the same rule of politeness, and 
much trouble could be saved if there sincerity is one of the chief character- 
were more system in the way in which ls ' jlcs ' - 
it is managed. Of course the ordinary ODDS AND ENDS 
farmer’s wife cannot employ the same 
accuracy in making her few pounds of Unwise WiLLS.-The basis of all fam- 
butter that the large dairy farms do in Uy ties should be unselfish love. How 
the manufacture of hundreds of pounds; often do we find it ? If a sister is left to 
but a careful plan for the work, a little the care of a brother, he and his wife 
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6550—GIRLS’ COSTUME 
ODDS AND ENDS. 
Unwise Wills. —The basis of all fam¬ 
ily ties should be unselfish love. How 
often do we find it ? If a sister is left to 
the care of a brother, he and his wife 
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scientific knowledge, and the use of a ought to give her the care and protec- 
thermometer will certainly help. It is 
surely much easier to weigh the butter 
and know the exact amount of salt to 
add, than to guess and taste, and not 
have the butter salted twice alike. Even 
the absence of little worries like these 
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PATTERNS FOR R. N.-Y. READERS. 
Write the order for patterns separate 
from other matter, give bust measure 
and pattern number, and inclose 10 cents. 
Each pattern is complete with instruc¬ 
tions for cutting the garment and put¬ 
ting together. 
Girls' Costume. 
The full waist is arranged over smooth¬ 
ly fitted linings that close in the hack 
under the box plait. The front has the 
fashionable double box plait with gath¬ 
ers on each side, that are allowed to fall 
in blouse style at the waist. The lower 
edge of waist is finished with a belt. 
A broad pointed collar separates over 
the box plaits in front and back, and 
falls over the full sleeve. The full, 
round skirt is gathered and sewed to the 
MOTHERS. —Be sure to use “Mrs. Wins¬ 
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while Teething. It is the Best.— Adv. 
tion they would give to their daughters. 
I had a friend whose father made an un¬ 
wise will, giving the house and land to 
his son and a home to the daughter as 
long as she remained unmarried. The 
young lady did not choose to be married. 
As time rolled by, the brother made the 
remark that he did not think much of 
going through life with an old maid 
hanging on his coat-tails. The old maid 
waited to hear no more, but left New 
England for a far Western State, estab¬ 
lished a school, and has a home of her 
own, and is respected and beloved by all. 
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So much for an unwise will. Leave the this sewing machine. There are two of them in homes connected with I he Rural 
girls what they are to have, out and out, 
for the home is not the same with father 
and mother gone. cousin B. 
Sentiment and Education. —In an 
article on the marriage rate among col¬ 
lege women, Millicent W. Shinn, in the 
Century, gives the following hit of con¬ 
versation between a college man and 
woman : 
“I never expected to marry the sort of 
girl I did. You know, I always believed 
in intellectual equality and all that, and 
had good friendships with the college 
girls. But, you see, you girls hadn’t 
any illusions about us. After you had 
seen us hanging at the board on prob¬ 
lems you could work, and had taken 
the same degrees yourselves, you couldn’t 
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Ill High arm, oak or walnut woodwork, and 
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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, New York. 
