write to her. If she gives her whole name, I 
will mine, and not sigu tt— Trixie S., Hoo»ier 
State. _ 
From a Young Traveler. 
Dear Mr. Editor I am a St. Lawrence Co. 
(N. Y.) boy, sixteen years of age. I have read 
the boys' and girls’ letters In your paper for 
two years, but never have written one, itnd 1 do 
not think It fair to read t heir letters and not 
write one myself, i raised about six hundred 
bushels of mangolds this year. 1 have been 
traveling t his fall. I went to Washington and 
spent about nine days sight-seeing. I also visit¬ 
ed Alexandria and Mt. Vernon. When I name 
home I went from New York to Hartford by 
steamboat, and from Boston home. I onjoy 
traveling very much. Won’t some of the Ru¬ 
ral hoys and girls tell of their travel# and 
oblige?—H. b. s. 
from nock to trimming nt the bottom, like the 
others, should be at the line where a belt would 
be worn, from four to six i nches larger t han the 
body, and have at that place buttons to bold 
the band of dress skirt. 
The band of the dress skirt ahould be just as 
large and have in it at equaL distances six'or 
eight button holes to fnstou it on to the body 
coat. If an upper dress skirt, is worn, it also 
should have as large a band with the same but¬ 
ton holes. Then. Instead of a tight polonaise 
or tight basque waist, a loose-fitting sacque 
should be worn, or a polonaise with a loose 
front which might be belted from under the 
arms ; the bolt worn very loose Indeed, by which 
we mean at least an inch larger than all the 
rest. This is the new dress as adapted for win¬ 
ter. If ohetnlloons of knitted webbing cannot 
be had, woolen or cotton flannel ones may be 
made, liko those described )is having been worn 
nineteen years ago. The last two garments, the 
chetnljupe and body coat, were invented and a 
description of them printed In 1869. 
To sum up the advantages of such n dross, It 
gives as much freedom about the lungs as the 
most earnest physioian could desire for us; ail 
the weight of clothing Is removed from the 
yielding abdomen and suspended from the firm¬ 
er shoulders; It makes rive garments answer 
the uses of ten, thereby saving time, trouble 
and annoyance; It distributes the clothing 
more equally, dressing the limbs more, the 
trunk less, than we have been in the habit of 
doing; it is all fastened by buttons and button 
holes, obviating the need of pins, it is more 
graceful, because it allows unconstrained mo¬ 
tion ; and last but not least, the ornaments of 
a ladies' dress—that is, her collars and cuffs or 
ruffs and ruffles are always on, and always in 
tbelr exact place. 
How this plan may be adapted to warm weath¬ 
er, or to the varying circumstances of different 
individuals, and how one can gradually assume 
it, without at once discarding all they have on 
hand, will bo explained in a future article, or 
upon inquiry from any other correspondent 
stating apparent difficulties. 
Marquette, Mich., Nov., 1874. 
FANNY’S TWO QUESTIONS 
FAWNY, leaning on my knee, 
With her questions bothers mo 
BT MRS. LAURA S. HAGNER 
Larger of the golden bolt! 
Krrant knight in ladles’ bower— 
1 have caught thee fairly now, 
Uld within this lotus flower. 
Ivory prison meet for then. 
Boon companion of the light! 
Prowned In nectar thou shalt bo 
Tiny clarenoe of delight 1 
Golden youth, bewnre!—beware ! 
Touoh not, taste not, lost ye die 
From this wanderer i if .the air 
Learn forbidden sweets to fly. 
G1 enmary Farm, Oldham Go., Ky. 
*• Dnele, you know everything;— 
All about the birds and bees, 
Flowers and grass and leaves and trees. 
Uncle, you know everything’. 
*• Why do buttercups grow yellow 
While tbd violets grow blue? 
Tell me, please, and tell mo true, 
There’s a dear old fellow !” 
“ Fanny donr, tome things, tt may be 
I may know more thun a baby ; 
But why buttereuivj grow yellow 
While the violet grows blue. 
I can tell no more than you.” 
A Clrl who is Fond of her Boy Cousin. 
Dear Mr. Editor;—I am a girl thirteen 
years of ago. I live on a farm. My father has 
been building a new house this summer. I am 
attending Select School this fall and liko it 
very much. I haven cousin who lives near by; 
we visit each other very often ; we are very In¬ 
timate friends. He I# going to attend school 
this winter, lie has a pouy, and we go out 
riding often. I have a pet dog, “Sook;" he 
has curly hair and as white as snow. I hope 
you will accept this, for it is the first time I 
have ever written for your paper. — Maggie L. 
S., South Westorlo, N. Y. 
Fanny raised her shining eyes 
Up to mine In swift. surprise : 
" I thought you knew everything, 
Uncle, and I’m sure you do. 
If you'll only tell me true ; 
Why do rusty brown birds sing 
Sweetly, while bright birds are mute ? 
Why are all the dull ores hunest, 
Whllo the gay ones steal the fruit? 
Don’t you think It quite a pity 
They can’t bo both good and pretty ?” 
" Older heads than yours, my dearie, 
Have been puzzled by tins query, 
And may answer ns they would; 
As for me, why fair and good 
On tho same bough seldom grow. 
Really, Fan, I do not know 1” 
(Palnrsnille (O.) Telegraph 
REVOLUTION IN WOMAN'S DRESS. 
BY FANNY M. STEELE 
There has been considerable Interest excited 
all over the country in the movement toward 
Dress Reform inaugurated by the New England 
Women's Club of Boston. A number of plans 
for the improvement of ladies' under-wear were 
submitted during last winter. In June an exhi¬ 
bition was held and a large audience were car¬ 
ried to a pitch of enthusiasm upon examining 
garments exhibited by a dressmaker, Mrs. 
Flint. Chemlloons had been already Invented 
and were for sale at furnishing store . The gar¬ 
ments then exhibited by Mrs. Flint have since 
been exhibited before the Women’s Congress, 
lately held In Chicago, but as they are patented, 
every man, woman and child was forbidden to 
imitate them, either for private woar or public 
sale. 
The great majority of women at the present 
manufacture, in their own homes, tbelr 
own undergarments 
From a Young Good Templar. 
Dear Mr. Editor:— T take great pleasure in 
reading the letters from boys and girls, and 
thought, that I would write one. I live one 
mile and a-half from the village of Springvllle, 
Erie Co., N. Y. My father owns 170 acres of 
land. Wo have a stone quarry, a large orchard 
and a large sugar bush on the farm. Last spring 
wo tapped about 700 trees. I belong to the 
Good Templars, and go to the Sabbath school. 
1 have not missed attending one Sabbath for 
two years. Well, I must stop writing, and If 
tliis is not thrown Into the waste basket per¬ 
haps I will write again.—C hableb Clark. 
iETTERS FROM BOYS AND GIRLS 
From a Bright Central New York Boy. 
Mr. Editor:— As I take a. great interest in 
the letters from boys ami girls, I thought I 
would like to have a word to say. We live on a 
farm of two hundred acres ; keep quite a large 
number of fine wool sheep, twenty cows, sev¬ 
eral head of young stock, &c. Wo have two 
cosset, lambs; their names are ‘'Crimp" and 
“ Gore." We have nine cats (who can beat 
this?)—the youngest a kitten named "Trot," 
who does much credit to lier name. 1 am not a 
smart little girl, who lias pieced a bod quill, 
with throe thousand patches in it; indeed 1 
am not a girl at all, but a. boy, but If I should 
ever turn into a girl and patch a bod quilt, l 
will write you about it. At. present 1 am trap¬ 
ping woodchucks and rats, which is more In 
my line. I think I have written about enougb ) 
so here is my name— Harry 8. Randall, Cort¬ 
land , \\ F., June, 1874. 
time 
To them wo propose to 
explain a scheme which was invented, so far as 
we can yet learn, long before the Boston gar¬ 
ments, and whose claims for healtbfuluesa and 
simplicity are, in our opinion,a* yet unsurpass¬ 
ed. Nineteen years ago tho writer wore canton 
flannel undergarments which were made in 
this way :-A loose-fitting basque of the mate¬ 
rial was nut with coat sleeves down to the wrist. 
On the lower edge of the basque was sewed the 
gathers of the drawers, made of t he same mate¬ 
rial. Here was a suit that reached from neck 
to wrists and ankles In one piece. Such a gar¬ 
ment. is a "chcmiloou. ’ as they are called now¬ 
adays. In some places such suits can bo bough L 
made of knitted material In ladles’ sizes. They 
are quite common in children’s sizes. But if 
you buy an ordinary lady’s underwear and draw¬ 
ers you can unite them by cutting off the vest- 
at the waist line, cutting it open in front (the 
ordinary opening is not long enough) and sew¬ 
ing it to the drawers after the drawer’s band is 
ripped off. You will need to faco the seam on 
the Inside for neatness, which will make It 
strong enough to bold a row of buttons. Bay 
eight, at eo»al distances. Upon these buttons 
may be fastened the band of muslin drawers. 
The muslin drawer's band should be made as 
large as the elastic undergarment, at least three 
or four Inches larger than the measure round 
the person. Now we have flaunels next the 
skin from neck to heels and muslin drawers 
fastened to them upon the same buttons, over 
the flanneLs and under the muslin drawers may 
be buttoned elastic ribbon for those who wish 
to discard garters and suspend their stockings. 
Over fchi9 suit wo recommend to be worn a 
garment we call a ehemijupe, from two French 
words meaning shirt arid petticoat. It looks 
like a yoked nightgown, that is as short as an 
underskirt would be, and trimmed around the 
bottom. It may have a pointed yoke In front 
and if tucks are put down the front of the yoke 
like a shirt bosom, the dress may be worn with 
a pointed neck to display It. The yoke should 
be shorter behind than we should think pretty 
for a nightgown, and the front should be open 
and buttoned up from the throat to the trim¬ 
ming on the bottom. It should be fitted exactly 
to the neck and the sleeves to the w rists, when 
the collar and cuffs may be Bewed on—or, If any 
one preiers, there may be a collar band and 
wristbands. Some prefer collar and cuffs sep¬ 
arate to lessen washing. But to unite In ono 
piece oollars, cuHb, chemise and uodersklrt, 
saves a great deal of washing, loss of pieces, 
LOVING AND FALLING IN LOVE 
Inquiry About House Plants. 
Dear Rural:— I have Just, been reading your 
welcome paper, which my papa has been taking 
for some time. T was reading the boys’ and 
girls' letters telling of their pets. I have chick¬ 
ens, and my little sifter has a lamb and a kit¬ 
ten. I have a great, many house plants which I 
prefer to any other pets. They are blooming 
and looking fine now, except some choice ge¬ 
raniums, whose buds blast. I would tike some 
of the writers of the Rural to answer through 
its pages how to prevent them from blasting. 
I will not write any more at present, but if this 
letter is published I will write again at some 
future time.—O. L. J„ Greenville, TU. 
Nothing is indeed so common in this world 
as falling in love; yet it is not quite so common 
to love. The one is the flower that may bloom 
and wither in a night; the other is the rich 
fruit from the flower, that can survive the sun 
and storm, and ripen to decay no more. When 
feverish anxieties have passed away; when 
"hopes and fears that kindle hope" have 
ceased: when selfish jealousies and lovers’ 
quarrels are burled ; when “ honeymoons" are 
long forgotten, and the snowy brow has become 
wrinkled, and the eye lost Its moisture -than 
does love, worthy of the name, become the In¬ 
mate of the heart and home—love, pure, noble, 
devoted, seif-sacrificing, seeking not its own 
but the happiness of Its beloved object—a love 
such as youth never dreamed of nor realized. 
FEMININE BREVITIES, 
ILLUSTRATED REBUS-No. 2 
Grace Greenwood is lecturing in the West. 
Janauschek is known in private life as Mrs. 
Fred Pilot. 
For what port is a man bound during court¬ 
ship? Bound to Havre. 
“Mrs. Van Cott bns been preaching to 
gentlemen only, In Baltimore." 
Mme. Celeste recently appeared for the 
2,831st time in "The Green Bushes.” 
A Salt Lake Mormon is gettlngrichby hiring 
out. his wives to dowashingand house cleaning. 
ANNA Dickinson wears amethyst settings in 
her garter clasps, but nobody has ever seen 
them. 
As soon as a young woman gets some steady 
employment, she stops fainting away at sight 
of a mouse. 
Mlle. FIortenbe Schneider, the Parisian 
Queen of the opera bonffe, was in her youth a 
working girl. 
Virginia is living in hopes of sending a 
woman one hundred and twenty-two years old 
to the Centennial. 
The “carryall" Is to take the place of the 
corset. We’ll not say what the “ ohemiloon ” 
takes the place of. 
Mrs. King William makes her own bed and 
dusts her own room, and when a servant-girl is 
i mpudent dusts her. 
We don’t care to fling at Olive Logan, but we 
feel compelled to Inquire If her health wouldn't 
permit, her to go to Europe for a year or two? 
It is reported from Florence that Mr. Joaquin 
Miller, the poet of the Sierras, has eloped with 
an Italian married woman, the mother of several 
children. 
Vinnik Ream's statue of “The West” has 
been set up in 8t. Louis, and there Is a wide 
difference of opinion as to Its merits—among 
stone-masons. 
Jenny Lind and Herr Goldschmidt are going 
to live at Wiesbaden. They are to become 
leading Professors of Music in a Rhenish Acade¬ 
my of Music lately established by Kaiser 
William. 
Four ladies of position in London have be- 
They under- 
Cood Advice to Boya. 
Dear Editor:— I have a word to B3y to boys. 
Be Polite. Study the graces; not the graces of 
the dancing master, of bowing and scraping; 
not the foppish, infidel etiquette of a Chester¬ 
field, but benevolence—the graces of the heart 
—whatever things are true, honest, just, pure, 
lovely and of good report. Tbe true secret of 
politeness is to please—to make happy—flowing 
from goodness of heart—a fountain of love. As 
you leave the family circle for retirement, say 
“good night.;” when you rise, “good morn¬ 
ing.” Be ClvLl. When the rich Quaker was 
asked the secret of his success in life lie an¬ 
swered, “Civility, friend, civility." Never 
strike back — that la, never render evil for evil. 
Some hoys give eye for eye, tooth for tooth, 
blow for blow, kick for kick. Little boys, hark; 
wbat says Solomon “ Surely the churning of 
milk brlngeth forth butter, and the wringing 
of the nose brlngeth blood; so the forcing of 
wrath brlngeth forth strife.”—A. T. Ingalls. 
Answers in two weeks 
HIDDEN RIVERS.-No. 4 
1. Albert, weed the garden well. 
2. Boy, never mind that little hurt, 
3. Bertha, are you ready ? 
4. O, the mob I leave at once. 
5. I have long known that. 
6. Tt is him, I tell you. 
7. But lie is smart, I tell you. 
8. Robert, are they coming ? 
9. He broke bis leg yesterday. 
10. Did you catch the mouse ? 
S3^“ Answer In two weeks. 
GEOGRAPHICAL ENIGMA.—No. 10, 
My first is in month, hut not in year; 
My second is in boy, but not In man; 
My third is In new, but not in old; 
My fourth la In tin, but not in iron ; 
My fifth is in chair, but not in stool; 
Mv sixth is In nail, but not in talk; 
My seventh is lu cat, but not in dog; 
My whole is tho name of one of the Terri¬ 
tories of the United States. C. E. Tibbits. 
tar -a nswer in two weeks. 
the now plan of dressing adopted, it win d© 
found to he as easy to remove all as It Is now to 
change collars and cuffs. , 
Over this garment Is to be worn another that 
will take the place of corset and bal moral skirt. 
It is called a body coat and is to be made of 
such materials, whatever they may bo, as shall 
make It warm enough for winter without, any 
other being worn, and cool enough and stiff 
enough In summer. The upper part should be 
a sleeveless basque, loose-fitting, on the lower 
edge of which should he sewed the gathers of 
the oolored skirt. If this body coat is flounced 
at the bottom. It takes the place In a measure 
of a hoop skirt, In sustaining the drapery of the 
dress. The basque part should be of the same 
material. It may be made «s pretty as one 
pleases—It may be of colored flannels, cash- 
mere, merino fine cloth, wadded and quilted 
silk or satin, may be embroidered or not, and 
like the last garment should be buttoned up 
From a Positive Hoosler State Girl. 
Dear Editor:— I thought I would write and 
see if you would publish my letter; otherwise 
I will not write again. Now, I think I can 
equal if not beat Dew Drop, for 1 have made 
two quilts and four of my own dresseB, besides 
a number of fancy articles—if tlie male cousius 
count, that as anything. But then, Df.w Drop, 
you are a smart child. I agree with Leta W. 
that there may besoms of us Just as beautiful 
as D. D., but I must not say too much, for I do 
not want to follow her la one thing, as I am 
inclined to think that she is just a little boast¬ 
ful. I do want Leta W. to give her whole 
name, for If she don't object I would like to 
PUZZLER ANSWERS.-Nov. 21 
Problem No. 15.—1902K feet. 
Addenda.—E D—115.4135 rods 
CE- 78.0020 “ 
D C-139.3000 “ 
D B-187 6833 “ 
DA-338.2909 •* 
Word-Square No. 3.— 
1.—SHIP 2.—HAND 
HIDE ALOE 
IDEA NOON 
PEAL DENT 
come home decorative artists 
take the whole furnishing, upholstering, fur¬ 
niture, and all that tends to embellish the In 
terlor of a dwelling. 
3.—HATE 
ABEL 
TEAL 
ELLA 
