249 
eries  of  black  and  white  cretonne  with 
colored  flowers  may  be  fitted  inexpensive¬ 
ly,  but  will  suggest  modern  good  taste 
in  decoration. 
Very  smart  for  girls  from  six  to  12 
years  are  Russian  sailor  dresses  of  linen, 
green,  yellow  or  rose  color,  price  $6.50. 
Sailor  ties  for  wear  with  gilds’  dresses 
are  75  cents  for  half  squares  and  $1.50 
for  squares,  colors  brown,  red  or  black. 
There  are  many  readymade  dresses  for 
girls  from  six  to  14,  in  gingham,  chatn- 
brny  and  poplin,  priced  from  $1  up,  and 
there  are  pretty  and  unusual  models  in 
the  cheaper  styles.  Little  girls’  sheer 
white  dresses,  sizes  two  to  six  years,  are 
offered  in  very  attractive  models  at  $1.25, 
$1.50  and  $2.25. 
English  tweed  walking  skirts  in  sports 
models,  ready  for  rough  wear,  are  $7.50 
to  $10.50.  Scotch  tailored  skirts  w'ere 
seen  for  $1,8,50;,  they  were  genniuc 
Scotch  tartans  of  the  Douglas,  Stewart, 
Forbos  and  Campbell  clans. 
Suede-like  fabric  gloves  in  gray,  white, 
ecru  and  pongee,  12-button  length,  are 
$1.25.  The  dealers  continue  to  tell  us 
that  these  gloves  are  in  limited  supply, 
and  are  likely  to  be  out  of  stock  before 
Spring. 
Aluminum  waffle  pans  are  $2.25  to 
$8.15.  The  demonstrator  tells  us  that 
they  need  no  greasing,  and  cook  the  waf¬ 
fles  very  crisp.  The  irons  are  much 
cheaper. 
Homesteading  in  Idaho 
Some  people  say  anyone  taking  a 
homestead  should  have  about  $2,000  to 
begin  with.  Rut.  there  are  a  lot  of  peo¬ 
ple  who  will  never  get  that  much  saved 
up  until  they  get  a  home  of  their  own, 
of  some  kind,  somewhere,  and  if  they  had 
that  much  they  very  likely  would  buy  a 
place  near  a  city  instead  of  taking  up  a 
homestead.  As  I  think  most  people 
know,  homesteads  usually  are  in  the  hills, 
or  arc  where  water  is  hard  to  get,  even 
for  drinking  purposes,  or  maybe  the  soil 
is  alkali  and  most  always  far  from  mar¬ 
ket.  But  whatever  drawback  it  happens 
to  be  there  are  some  of  us  who  are  will¬ 
ing  to  put  up  with  it  in  order  to  have 
a  home.  T  believe  most  of  the  home¬ 
steaders  stick  to  their  claims,  but  once 
in  a  while  a  family  will  keep  remember¬ 
ing  how  their  pockets  did  jingle  with 
money  in  the  city,  which  they  don’t  do  on 
a  homestead,  not  the  first  few  years  at 
least,  and  they  haven’t  the  courage  and 
perseverance  to  stick. 
A  little  over  three  years  ago  my  hus¬ 
band  and  I  lived  in  a  city.  He  made 
money,  so  that  we  lived  comfortably,  but 
we  could  not  save  any  money.  We  wished 
to  get  a  home  of  our  own,  and  we  could 
not  save  enough  to  buy  a  place.  A  man, 
not  an  agent,  told  my  husband  of  some 
land  he  could  file  on  for  a  homestead. 
We  traveled  a  good  many  miles,  and 
found  the  place  as  good  as  represented. 
After  my  husband  paid  the  filing  fees  we 
had  less  than  $50.  But  we  are  here  yet. 
We  built  a  log  house  in  the  Summer 
when  the  weather  was  fine,  so  we  could 
camp  and  cook  outdoors.  It  happened 
not  to  rain  until  we  got  the  roof  on.  We 
were  too  late  to  mi.se  a  crop  that  Sum¬ 
mer.  We  managed  to  buy  some  groceries 
and  get  a  neighbor  to  haul  them  from  the 
small  town,  about  10  miles  distant.  Let 
me  say  right  here  that  I  believe  in  a  Di¬ 
vine  Providence.  So  many  things  have 
happened,  as  if  the  Great  Father  was 
watching,  and  when  we  were  just  to  the 
wall  then  He  made  an  opening  for  us. 
The  great  trouble  is,  some  people  see  a 
wall,  but  turn  and  run  another  way,  in¬ 
stead  of  going  right  up  to  the  wall. 
I  remember  lying  awake  nights  that 
cold  and  snowy  Winter  wondering  wliat 
we  would  do  in  the  Spring.  We  had 
no  horses,  no  plow,  and  just  a  few  gar¬ 
den  seeds.  We  also  must  have  more  gro¬ 
ceries  even  before  Spring.  My  husband 
decided  he  must  go  and  bunt  work  soon 
after  he  had  gotten  in  enough  wood  to 
do  me  till  he  should  get  back.  I  had 
consented  to  stay  alone,  though  it  looked 
very  bleak,  and  I  wasn't  used  to  staying 
alone.  But  just  a  few  days  before  Christ¬ 
mas  a  man  from  a  few  miles  away  came 
to  hire  him.  and  the  work  was  such  as 
not  to  keep  him  away  from  home  even 
of  nights,  as  the  work  was  only  about 
a  mile  and  a  half  away.  Was  he  Santa 
Claus?  Well,  husband  earned  enough  to 
buy  us  more  groceries,  enough  to  last  us 
up  into  the  Spring. 
Still  we  knew  not  how  we  should  farm 
S*/?c  RURAL  NEW-YORKER 
without  horses,  plows  or  enough  seeds, 
nor  money  to  buy  them.  The  snow  that 
Winter  got  about  three  feet  deep,  but 
we  had  plenty  of  wood  to  burn  and  we 
were  comfortable.  But  I  wonder  how 
many  would  have  stayed  on,  with  no 
more  than  we  had.  And  we  knew  not 
how  we  should  get  any  plowing  done 
until  it  was  time  to  plow,  and  a  neighbor 
offered  to  bring  his  team  and  plow  over, 
and  plow  for  us,  and  my  husband  was  to 
work  for  him  to  pay  for  this.  We  also 
managed  to  get  some  seed  wheat  and  pay 
for  it  with  work,  and  the  man  came  and 
harrowed  it  in.  By  this  time  we  felt 
as  though  we  were  getting  started.  We 
had  believed  all  along  that  there  would 
be  a  way  somehow,  but  we  didn’t  see 
how  it  would  he.  Well,  this  was  great 
for  us. 
There  was  a  good  deal  of  clearing  to 
do  that  year,  and  has  been  every  year; 
plenty  of  hard  work,  and  hills  to  climb, 
and  such  hills  as  some  of  them  are! 
That  year  our  garden  and  wheat  grew 
nicely.  We  raised  enough  potatoes  to 
last  us  till  the  next  planting  time,  and 
some  to  sell.  But  if  we  had  figured  with 
pencil  and  paper  of  the  $1,000  an  acre 
to  be  made  raising  onions  or  strawberries 
Embroidery  Designs 
=  No,  927  is  a  design  for  embroidering  a  cen-  f 
§  ter  cloth  twenty-seven  iuohes  in  diameter.  1 
1  The  scallops  arc  to  be  padded  and  button-  § 
|  holed;  the  dots  and  leaves  are  to  be  worked  i 
|  as  eyelets,  the  leaves  are  to  be  worked  in.  | 
|  solid  or  satin  stitch,  the  wheat  in  bullion  | 
1  stitch  and  the  stems  are  to  be  outlined.  I 
|  Price  of  transfer  for  pattern,  10  cents, 
or  trucking,  let  me  say  I  haven't  heard 
of  anyone  making  that  on  a  new  home¬ 
stead.  They  might  on  a  small  place 
close  to  a  city  market. 
Though  we  haven’t  made  much  money 
we  haven’t  been  without  the  necessities 
of  life.  As  for  enjoying  life  on  a  home¬ 
stead  it  depends  very  much  on  the  per¬ 
son.  If  you  can  enjoy  the  sunshine  or 
the  snow,  if  you  would  as  soon  hoar  a 
bird  sing  as  a  person  in  an  opera,  if  you 
can  enjoy  the  trees,  the  flowers,  the  chick¬ 
ens  and  all  tilings  that  grow,  if  you 
would  rather  take  a  walk  around  the 
place,  over  the  hills,  or  through  the  fields, 
and  look  at  the  trees  or  rocks  or  see  the 
garden  grow,  than  to  walk  through  a  city, 
if  you  can  see  more  beauties  in  nature 
than  in  shop  windows  or  shows,  and  this 
not  only  one  day  hut  many  days  at  a 
stretch,  then  you  may  think  of  home¬ 
steading,  You  should  also  be  of  a  hope¬ 
ful  mind,  believing  that  when  you  plant, 
seeds  they  will  grow  and  give  you  great 
returns,  and  don’t  fear  to  go  ahead  and 
do  things.  I  have  a  strawberry  patch 
which  I  take  care  of  myself.  I  enjoy 
it ;  would  rather  do  it  than  let  anyone 
else.  I  have  a  flock  of  R,  I.  Red  hens 
and  some  turkeys.  I  enjoy  feeding  them. 
We  now  have  three  horses  and  two 
hogs,  and  expect  to  get  a  cow  soon.  We 
also  have  some  farm  machinery,  which 
goes  to  show  we  have  not  tailed  on  our 
homestead.  And  we  like  it  well  enough 
to  stay  right  on.  mbs.  g.  a.  q. 
Neighborhood  Sociabilities  in  Tennessee 
I  hear  some  one  say  :  “Oh,  how  I  hate 
these  dull  gloomy  days.”  Well,  to  me 
they  have  not  been  dull,  for  I  am  too 
busy  to  get  dull. 
“Cedar  choppings.”  Did  you  ever  hear 
of  one?  They  have  been  common  here 
this  Winter.  The  men  folks  send  out  a 
general  invitation  to  the  male  population 
to  come  a  certain  day.  bring  axes,  saws, 
etc,,  and  help  chop  cedars.  As  the  work 
is  free,  gratis,  except  dinner,  one  tiles 
to  get  up  a  good  one.  Did  you  ever  get 
dinner  for  about  80  hungry  men?  I  call 
on  some  of  my  good  neighbors  for  assist¬ 
ance,  meanwhile  I  have  baked  pies,  cus¬ 
tards.  cakes  and  bread,  dressed  chickens, 
boiled  a  ham,  made  salads,  etc. 
We  set  two  tables  together,  cook  beans, 
potatoes,  rice,  make  several  gallons  of 
coffee,  got  out  pickles,  preserves,  jellies, 
butters,  and  peaches  to  serve  with  the 
cake.  Everything  except  the  pies,  peach¬ 
es  and  cake  is  placed  on  the  tables. 
Such  chattering,  laughing,  joking,  as 
goes  on  around  the  table  while  the  men 
are  eating,  and  how  we  women  have  to 
hustle  to  fill  up  the  empty  cups,  bread 
platters,  vegetable  dishes,  etc.,  hut  we 
have  seen  hungry  men  eat  before.  There 
is  plenty  cooked  so  we  are  not  scared. 
When  all  are  full  and  gone  to  work  what 
a  time  we  have  sorting  out  the  borrowed 
spoons,  knives,  forks  and  plates,  and  set¬ 
ting  things  to  rights! 
We  are  tired,  but  in  a  few  days  we 
frame  a  quilt  aud  we  ask  the  women 
folks  and  let  me  whisper  it,  I  would 
rather  cook  for  20  men  than  10  women  ; 
not  that  they  eat  the  most,  but — well, 
they  are  so  fastidious. 
Such  gatherings  keep  us  sociable  and 
alive  to  each  other’s  best  and  worst  qual¬ 
ities.  Then,  through  the  Winter  there  is 
sewing,  crocheting,  etc.,  to  be  done,  I  do 
so  want  to  crochet  a  bedspread,  and  can 
never  find  the  time;  four  boys  and  one 
wee  girl  to  keep  after  seems  to  get  away 
with  my  time.  We  have  a- graphophone, 
organ  aud  violin,  so  we  don't  lack  noise. 
Our  friends  are  always  welcome  and 
in  laying  the  plates  I  always  set  an  ex¬ 
tra  one;  it  is  seldom  unused  either.  We 
have  the  best  of  neighbors.  When  my 
husband  was  suffering  with  blood  poison 
(caused  by  extracting  a  brier  with  a 
brass  pin)  there  were  20  came  in  one 
day  aud  night;  each  one  offered  assist¬ 
ance.  In  leaving,  the  common  phrase 
was:  “If  you  need  me,  all  you  have  to  do 
is  let  me  know.”  We  have  no  lectures, 
moving  picture  shows  or  grand  operas, 
but  after  all  is  said  and  done,  I  believe 
that  with  our  own  bread,  our  own  meat, 
our  milk,  butter,  eggs,  our  own  vogGta- 
bles,  canned  fruits,  etc.,  our  own  homes, 
our  own  wood  and  good  neighbors,  where 
everyone  shares  one’s  joys  and  sorrows, 
we  are  to  be  envied  more  than  pitied. 
After  all  the  world  is  like  a  mirror,  and 
what  we  receive  is  but  the  reflection  of 
what  we  give.  mbs.  d.  b.  r. 
When  you  write  advertisers  mention  The 
It.  N.-Y.  and  you’ll  get  a  quick  reply  and  a 
“square  deal.”  See  guarantee  editorial  page. 
lOl  Wall  Paper 
Samples  FREE 
Send  your  name 
DOW.  Write  today  for 
this  big  FRKE  book. 
Over  100  New  1916 
Wail  Paper  Designs 
to  choose  from. 
Every  sample  is  cut 
from  the  paper  itself  and 
shows  the  exact  colors  and  designs; 
prices  on  the  buck  of  each.  l*rieoa  sue  very  low 
lem  ih»n<me-h»lf  of  retail  in moit  instances.  From 
3c  to  Me  per  double  roll.  Think  of  this— 
65c  Papers  a  Room  12x14x9  Ft. 
Semi  for  a  cop/  today,  flttu)/  tfi£  designa  and  prices. 
You  wtfl.2>e  5.urpriiu?«1  to  see  how  much  you  ran  wave 
buy  mg  wall  paper  and  paints  from  Montgomery  Ward  &Co, 
Tllpnigmicl^Ufa'id^  ap:p27 
New  York  Chicago  Kaoiai  City  Ft.  Worth  Portland 
Writ®  \\oxj9«  most  convenient. 
I  COLEMAN  GAS 
LANTERN 
A  »oMdlr-made,  fnra-hurttlnj;  lan¬ 
tern.  Bollt  of  ntekele.il  lirn«»  with  mi¬ 
ca  globe  to  at.nd  *11  the  b»rd  knocks| 
of  aftc-dark  form-work,  ilnlry  work, 
feed-work,  gnraee  work.ete.  No  wicks. 
No  chimneys  No  smoke  or  unot., Makes 
and  burn*  St*  own  gi».  Kill  it.  only, 
once  •  week — oieon  it  only  once  »  year.] 
GUARANTEED  38A 
{ II  Absolutely  danger  proof— can  t  ti- 
'#41  Can't  .pul.  Can't  clog  up.  Will 
**  not  blow  or  Jar  ont.even  if  tipped  over. 
Will  furnish  300  candle  power  of  good, 
strong, brilliant,  li*ht."More  light  than 
20  oil  lantern*"  at  a  coat  of  only  a  third 
of  a  centi  erhour.  Ask  vour  dealer — or  If 
noton  tala  Jn  ronrtown  yet,  write  infer 
catalog  of20  different  kinds  of  Gasoline 
J.anterDS, Table  t  amps,  etc. Dealer* or 
Agents  wanted  In  every  locality. 
THE  COLEMAN  LAMP  CO. 
2tt  So.  St.  Franet*.  fTlehkta.  K«.  t'HM  Summit.  Toledo,  O. 
|  805  £.  6th.,  St-Panl,  If  Inn.  <37  Akard,  Dsllm.,  Texas. 
36  South  Clinton  Av«oa«,  €b!o*go,  IUUoi*. 
Make  Your  Streams  Do  Your  Pumping 
Use  water  now  waited.  If  you  have  a 
supply  ui  3  gallons  or  more  a  minute 
and  a  tall  ot  3  lcet  or  more,  iustall  a 
RIFE  RAM 
R»uU  engine®  Mii't  wtndmlilri.  No  frets- 
in  if.  no  tf-AAolin*,  hlttai  Attention,  f«iw  r»»- 
pstirs.  Over  11,000  Jn  um*.  S*llKta<tioffc 
ffUArunt«o»l.  Ono  u*er  nAy»».  "Never 
a  atroka  In  3  J*«ara.  *’  Or»or»t*»ii  with  either  pn«*nmatic  or  grav¬ 
ity  tank  system.  Write  today  for  catalog  and  fr«6  aatiinato. 
RITE  ENGINE  CO.  J<2»  Trinity  Bldg..  Bcw  Tork 
£ 
THIS  MORNING — thousands  of  men,  women  and 
children  breakfasted  on  crisp  griddle  cakes  and  Karo 
— the  great  table  syrup  of  this  country. 
There’s  no  syrup  quite  so  good  or  so  popular  as  Karo  for 
waffles,  hot  biscuits,  corn  bread — every  kind  of  bread. 
In  cooking,  too,  preserving,  in  making  desserts  and  candies, 
clever  housewives  are  finding  Karo  a  wonderful  help.  The 
Corn  Products  Cook  Book  tells  how.  There  is  a  free  copy 
for  you,  send  for  it. 
Housekeepers  nowadays  order  Karo  by  the  dozen  cans  to  avoid 
running  short. 
Karo  Premium  Aluminum  Griddle  to  Karo  Users 
At  Less  Than  Half  Price 
Send  us  the  labels  from  50  cents  worth  of  Karo  and  85  cents  in 
stamps  or  money  order  and  you'll  get  this  $2.25  Solid  Aluminum 
Griddle  by  parcel  post  prepaid. 
Women  who  have  used  this  Aluminum  Griddle  say  they  would 
never  go  back  to  the  ordinary  kind. 
Remember,  it  needs  no  greasing — doesn’t  smoke — can’t  rust;  does  not 
chip  and;  is  really  easy  to  keep  clean  and  bright  on  both  sides.  It  heais 
uniformly  over  entire  baking  surface — every  cake  well  done  all  over. 
Get  the  Karo  from  your  grocer  and  send  for  one  of  these  Griddles  at  once. 
Dept. 
CORN  PRODUCTS  REFINING  COMPANY 
204  New  York  P.  O.  Box  161 
The  Favorite  Table  Syrup  From 
Maine  to  California 
