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The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
bloom at Decoration time, and we cut tufting or patching and take a hand. I 
literally bushels of snowy flowers. enjoy a straight fair game of wits; it is 
Ivight here liet me say that our dowers a rule no cheating ox* quarreling. The 
all go to the soldiers on this day; not a dominoes arc good to teach them to 
single one is cut for private use, as wo count and think quickly ; rook teaches 
believe that, there are ,%4 days in the year them to remember 
when people may decorate their graves, Spring work him opened up: two 
and that this one day should be kept tobacco beds arc burned and sown, the 
sacreij to the purpose ior which it is set. corn ground partly plowed, the fencing 
apart Some never visit their graves under way. and with it all the seeds of 
except on this day, and' to the daughter hope are planted and watered from the 
and granddaughter of men who wore the sprinkling pot of trust for the future, 
uniform of our country it seems that the tflaiming out of the window 1 see the 
proper observance of this day is a very yellow plum trees are full of swelling 
! ^ • , , , - buds, and I hope they will not get too 
At this time of the year the old blue smart, but so far they have never failed 
spidenvort unfolds its buds, paeked tightly two years together; always every other 
at the end of a three-sided' stem. Later year a heavy crop. For canning purpose 
in the season our one \ueea sends up two they arc not to he excelled. Such pies 
or three spikes of creamy bells. At an as the canned plums make in the Spring, 
old colonial home where I have been a when jaded appetites call for something 
guest, the. long tront path is bordered on sour! The children are attending Hun- 
each side by these Yuccas, a. fitting dec- day school. A small vacant house has 
0 Ai? n *u 1 ^stately ^* nvn ' been fixed up for the purpose, and we 
All these bulbs, vines and shrubs have have sometimes 7.” in attendance. These 
not grown in a day, nor have they reached home Sunday schools nrc so sociable that 
maturity without much tending and pa- I believe I prefer them to the more 
tient care, but. starting with a few, others modern ones in a church. Our quarter- 
have been added until now the place is lies will be in by next Sunday, and if 
transformed from its former bareness, and tlie crowd grows too large for the house 
is much pleasanter to live in. though we there is a lovely grove nearby with the 
are not yet satisfied, and hope at some best spring hounding from under a large 
time to have our surroundings really rock, under the spreading branches of 
beautiful. EUTJf w. Gordon. the beech, elms and oaks. We can han- 
“ die all who come; then when the hot 
Tennessee Notes weather coines we will get up a picnic. 
How glad we are to see the sun shine and perhaps some iee c-ream to go . with 
again. For two weeks it has been a our cold water, and altogether we are 
steady drizzle or steady downpour, and looking forward to a real happy Sum- 
truly the weather gets on one’s nerves mer. MRS. d. n. p. 
sometimes, though I have kept just as - 
busy as a bee, tufting coverlets and 
braiding rugs, with one hooked rug Stretching Curtains 
thrown in for good measure. And let me I thought some reader who does not 
tell you rug lovers, the roses and leaves own a curtain stretcher might be as glad 
were made of soft underwear, colored as I was to learn—which I did recently 
green and red. They take the dye so . from a neighbor—that curtains can be 
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D ESSERT is the climax of 
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When the appetite has been 
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The prevailing fashion in beu sets calls for a simple design embroidered on unbleached 
sheeting. We illustrate one of these sets, No, 1070, which shows an artistically designed wreath. 
It is easily embroidered, requiring no olher stitch but large french knots. 'Two shades of blue 
or rose pink are recommended, the darker shade bring used for the leavps and the lighter shade 
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readily, and shade up in working, but 
they must be cut rather narrow and long 
ways of the ribs—not crosswise. This 
rug had a dark brown border, light tan 
center, roses and leaves in corners, and 
buds, roses and leaves in center. The 
buds were filled in with* some yarns col¬ 
ored n pale pink, and we framed the rug, 
or Lee did. The two of us soon filled it 
out. Work goes on faster when framed. 
A letter from Charlie, the eldest lad, 
who has gone hack to Iowa, advises me of 
his safe arrival; says there is much mov¬ 
ing. It seems that so many tenants 
stay only one year in a place. Moving 
day was always a bugbear to me, and I 
want but little of it; would rather bear 
with a few more inconveniences than to 
move often. Three hens, my first, are 
hatching today ; not far enough advanced 
to tell how the hatch is going to turn out, 
but when young chickens begin to come 
olT and garden stuff to show green, I 
always draw a good long breath and say: 
“Well, tile hardest pull is about over,” 
and it has surely been a pull this "Win¬ 
ter; so many things to buy and so little 
received for butter and eggs. 
Early cabbage plants are making a 
brave show, and the potato onions, 
planted last Fall, are several inches high. 
Our Winter has been very mild with hut 
little snow. March 13 the peach buds 
were swelling, the yellow shrub, golden 
bell, full of buds and bloom, the “artifi¬ 
cial peach" trees just ready to burst in 
full bloom. 
We have been blessed with rending 
matter this Winter; I wonder if there 
are other centers like our own where 
there was such a dearth of something to 
read, and if there arc other points where 
there is a surplus. If the two could he 
connected and send the books, papers and 
magazines by freight the cost is not 
great, and words cannot tell of the enjoy¬ 
ment. They come here for miles for 
something to read. True, some will de¬ 
stroy them, hut 1 would not want to de- Thsm 1c no min co friendlccc but what 
prive the many for the faults of a few. b# can find a friend cincere enough to tell 
Then we have rook, dominoes, and a few him disagreeable truth*—Lord Lytton. 
other games. There seem to be some H* lc great who ia what he is from nn 
who do not care to read. Sometimes lure, and who never reminda us of others 
they cal! for me. and I lay aside my —Emerson. 
dried satisfactorily on the floor pinned 
to the carpet with a sheet underneath. 
I also spread paper under the sheet. 
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