Cfce  RURAL.  NEW-YORKER 
1349 
white  stitching  or  white  with  black 
stitching  are  favored  for  dress  wear, 
while  fabrics  and  wash  kids  retain  wide 
popularity.  Sheer  handkerchiefs  edged 
with  dyed  filet  lace— black  filet,  for  mourn¬ 
ing  wear — were  seen  among  novelties. 
Among  artificial  flowers  for  the  corsage 
are  old  rose  and  soft  yellow  roses  hav¬ 
ing  leaves  and  tendrils  of  silver.  An 
attractive  evening  scarf  seen  was  of 
white  satin  veiled  with  black  chiffon,  and 
edged  with  white  marabou.  Colored  silk 
tassels  finish  the  corners  of  many  deep 
collars  of  white  organdie.  Chiffon  veils 
embroidered  in  chenille  are  seen,  lint  the 
long  chiffon  or  net  veil  folded  over  the 
haf.  and  hanging  down  like  a  mourning 
veil  at  the  back  was  so  over-popular  that 
it  is  already  rather  out  of  date. 
The  Baby's  Wariirobe. — A  quilted 
wrapper  for  the  baby,  made  by  a  young 
mother,  was  very  comfortable  and  at¬ 
tractive.  It  was  made  of  white  China 
silk,  lined  with  the  same  material,  and 
interlined  with  a  layer  of  cotton  batting. 
The  little  garment  was  then  quilted  all 
over  in  diamonds  about  1%  inch  long. 
The  seams  were  sewn  up  before  quilting, 
excepting  the  sleeves  in  which  the  seam 
was  left,  open  for  convenience’  sake. 
There  was  no  trimming  of  any  kind,  the 
quilting  being  decoration  enough.  It  was 
a  dainty  little  garment,  very  warm  and 
snug.  Little  wrappers  of  albatross  or 
flannel  are  quickly  embroidered  in  the 
simple  lazy- daisy  stitch.  A  chain-stitch 
of  pale  pink,  with  a  lazy-daisy  forget-me- 
not  of  blue  studded  in  at  one-inch  in¬ 
tervals,  is  quickly  done,  and  looks  quite 
elaborate.  Other  simple  designs,  such  as 
a  three-branched  goose-foot,  alternating 
up  and  down,  make  pretty  borders.  Wo 
see  infants'  Winter  nightgowus  of  white 
flannelette  made  with  a  drawstring  at 
the  bottom  which  gives  the  baby  plenty  of 
chance  to  kick  about,  without  becoming 
uncovered.  Such  nighties,  readymade, 
finished  with  a  scalloped  edge  at  neck  and 
wrists,  are  50  cents.  There  are  also 
“Baby  Bunting”  sleeping  bags  of  white 
eiderdown  bound  with  silk,  having  a 
peaked  hood  attached,  which  are  snug 
enough  for  outdoor  sleeping. 
Rose  Hill  Farm 
(Continued  from  page  13-12) 
woodwork  just  a  shade  paler  green  than 
your  rugs.” 
Billie  wanted  a  bookcase  desk,  for  our 
few  books  were  still  piled  on  a  box,  and 
I  wanted  a  sideboard.  We  talked  of 
these  on  many  a  Winter  night.  Then 
Pat  took  another  jag  of  hard  wood,  and 
brought  bank  a  load  of  boxes.  I  could 
not  tell  you  just  how  we  fashioned  these 
two,  because  you  have  to  make  them 
partly  according  to  your  boxes.  We  as¬ 
sembled  the  boxes  in  the  kitchen  one 
cold  blustering  night  and  then  set  to 
work  on  them.  We  fitted  tbotn  this  way 
and  that,  over  and  over  again,  until  they 
looked  their  best.  For  the  desk  Billie 
stood  two  rather  long  boxes  ou  end, 
fastened  them  firmly  together — the  secret 
of  all  homemade  stuff  lies  in  that  word 
“firmly.”  In  the  narrower  one  be  fitted 
book  shelves.  At  the  proper  height  on 
the  wider  box  he  fitted  in  a  shelf,  ruth- 
er  a  double  shelf,  between  which  shoved 
iu  the  shelf  for  a  desk.  Near  the  front 
of  this  was  attached  small  chains,  fast¬ 
ened  uji  at  the  front  of  the  desk,  to  make 
the  shelf  strong,  and  at  the  back  of  this 
lie  fitted  a  set  of  pigeonholes.  Above  this 
he  made  two  shelves.  When  the  book 
case  was  in  this  stage  of  completion  it 
did  not  look  particularly  attractive.  It 
was  gappy  and  rough,  and — well,  simply 
patchy  pine  boxes.  But  I  made  a  cur¬ 
tain  for  the  front  of  the  side  book  shelves, 
and  a  short  one  of  the  same  material 
for  the  front  of  the  desk,  but  they  could 
not  be  hung  till  the  ragged  front  edges 
were  somehow  covered  up. 
The  day  following  was  one  of  those 
clear  beautiful  days,  a  forerunner  of 
sugaring  time,  while  yet  it  is  Winter. 
Billie  invited  me  out  to  the  wood  lot, 
while  he  hauled  a  load  of  wood.  Now  if 
there  is  any  one  thing  I  love  it  is  the 
bar>-  arms  of  the  forest  trees  in  Winter, 
and  if  one  is  lucky  enough  to  live  where 
the  deep  green  firs  are  scattered  about  the 
forest.,  and  a  white  birch  now  and  then 
etched  iu,  he  is  indeed  lucky.  I  rode 
out,  perched  ou  the  cross  bar  of  the  old 
sled,  beside  of  Billie,  clinging  sharply 
to  his  knee,  up  the  wood  road,  the  snow 
piled  high  at  each  side.  Iu  the  wood  lot 
I  wandered  about  wherever  Pat’s  sled 
had  made  a  ribbon  of  track,  traced  the 
tracks  of  the  squirrels,  and  the  feather¬ 
ing  trail  of  doer  mice,  and  discovered  the 
place  where  a  partridge  had  hidden  be¬ 
side  a  log  during  the  late  storm.  A  day 
in  the  Winter  woods  had  always  been  a 
poem  to  me,  but  presently,  through  the 
sharp  ring  of  my  Billie’s  ax  crept  more 
prosaic  thoughts.  How  very  practical 
Boris  lmd  grown,  to  be  sure!  T  noticed 
a  great  many  fir  tree  tops  that  had  been 
trimmed  from  the  wood  Billie  had  been 
hauling,  and  remembered  that  balsam  pil¬ 
lows  would  briug  a  price.  I  plowed  down 
through  the  snowly  path,  and  hurst  on 
Billie  with  my  new  idea. 
“W-h-n-t  a  thrifty  Doris!”  Billy  said, 
and  then  went  ou  with  his  chopping. 
The  result  was,  when  old  Pat  ambled 
down  to  the  house  a  great  green  feathery 
mass  nodded  on  top  of  the  load.  Tt  was 
as  though  "Riruam  woods  had  come  to 
Dunsinane,”  I'll  shorten  this  part  of 
the  story  by  saying  that  I  earned  three 
dollars  selling  balsam  pillows  that  Spring, 
enough  to  pay  for  all  the  paint  and  var¬ 
nish  and  curtains  that  we  had  bought. 
But  it  was  Unit  day  in  the  woods  that 
gave  me  an  idea. 
“Billie,”  I  said,  “we  can't  get  moldings 
for  the  front  of  that  sideboard  and  book¬ 
case,  can  wcV”  Billie  shook  his  head, 
“Not  here,  dearie,”  he  said. 
“Well,”  1  went  on,  running  the  smooth 
red  twigs  of  a.  dogwood  through  my 
hands.  “I  have  read  that  people  by  the 
sea  make  bookcases  of  old  skiffs,  and  por¬ 
tieres  of  shells,  and  drapery  of  fish  net. 
Aud  they  make  log  bungalows  in  the 
mountains  with  the  hark  all  on.  Typi¬ 
cal  of  their  own  locality  you  know.  So, 
why  don't,  we  do  the  rustic  here?  Why 
don’t  we  finish  the  front  of  those  boxes 
with  the  dear  brown  twigs  of  the  hem¬ 
lock,  and  make  a  rustic  plant  table,  and 
— and — oh,  just  enough  of  such  things 
to  make  our  room  look  quaint  and  pictur¬ 
esque.” 
The  box  furniture  was  all  stained  in¬ 
side  aud  out  a  dark,  dark  green,  like  the 
green  on  a  blackbird’s  wing,  and  the 
front  edges  covered  with  the  brown 
twigs  of  hemlock,  tacked  on  with  long 
brads,  a  filagree  of  rustic  work  above 
the  top  shelf  to  complete  it.  A  hand¬ 
some  table  all  in  rustic  work  for  plants 
stood  between  the  windows  to  complete 
the  picture.  The  other  fellow  may  have 
the  ebony  and  gold,  we  were  wholly  con¬ 
tent  with  ours. 
When  Spring  opened  and  Billie's  fath¬ 
er  drove  over  with  two  fine  cows  whose 
calves  bawled  along  behind  them,  a  hand¬ 
some  three-year-old  colt,  and  a  load  of 
seed  corn  and  potatoes  aud  oats,  in  fact 
seed  for  the  entire  Spring  planting,  we 
folt  that  there  was  no  place  quite  so 
lovely  as  our  own  Rose  Hill  Farm. 
MAUDE  MEREDITH. 
Sulphur  Fumigation  for  Bedbugs 
(Continued  from  page  1347) 
Winter  even  when  exposed  to  the 
weather,  and  house  or  rooms  should  be 
fully  fumigated  before  they  are  occupied 
by  humans.  The  eggs  are  not  always 
killed  by  a  sulphur  fumigation,  and  thus 
it  is  better  to  have  two  a  week  apart  in 
warm  weather.  The  use  of  hydrocyanic 
acid  gas  is  dangerous  to  life.  The  sul¬ 
phur  fumigation  appears  to  be  just  as 
effective,  but  there  is  danger  at  times 
from  fire.  To  overcome  this  fire  danger 
the  following  method  has  been  worked 
out.  Surely  every  one  who  has  the  least 
suspicion  that  these  terrible  creatures  are 
within  hail  ought  to  fight  them  to  the 
death. 
A  galvanized  iron  washtub,  half-full  of 
water,  is  set  ou  the  floor.  A  pan  coutuin- 
iug  the  sulphur  is  floated  ou  the  water  iu 
the  tub.  The  mass  of  sulphur  is  worked 
up  into  a  cone  by  patting  it  with  the 
hands.  At  the  top  of  the  heap  a  little 
hollow  is  made  with  the  thumbs,  and  two 
or  three  ounces  of  alcohol  are  poured  into 
the  hollow,  A  match  touched  to  the  alco¬ 
hol  will  ignite  the  whole  mass.  The  pan 
will  float  in  the  tub  while  the  sulphur  is 
burning;  there  is  little  nr  no  danger  of 
fire.  It  is  necessary,  of  course,  to  guard 
in  lids  way  against  the  intense  beat  pro¬ 
duced  by  the  burning  sulphur. 
In  order  to  make  tight  a  room  to  be 
fumigated,  every  crack  is  covered  with 
strips  of  wet  paper.  All  holes  are 
papered  and,  after  fumigation  has  been 
started  and  the  door  closed,  the  wet  pa¬ 
pers  are  plastered  over  tin-  cracks  around 
the  door  from  the  outside.  After  fumi¬ 
gation,  the  windows  are  opened  from  the 
outside  and  the  room  is  well  aired  before 
anyone  enters  it.  The  wet  paper  strips 
are  prepared  by  laying  newspapers  on  the 
floor,  placing  a  strip  of  thin  board  ou 
them  and  tearing  oil'  long  strips  about 
four  inches  wide.  Each  strip  is  dragged 
through  the  pan  of  water,  is  plastered 
over  a  crack  while  still  wet  and  is  patted 
into  contact  if  necessary  with  the  hands. 
If  this  work  is  done  rapidly,  the  wet 
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