THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
793 
r889 
Womans Work, 
CONDUCTED BY EMILY LOUISE TAPLIN. 
CHAT BY THE WAY. 
T HANKSGIVING season comes around 
again with its usual regularity, 
whether we feel inclined for thankfulness 
or not. It is not a very bright time fora 
good many, we fear, This has been a try¬ 
ing year, but at least we can take Jo 
March’s advice, and think of our mercies. 
We ate vefy apt to think exclusively of out 
trials, and it is just as well to have a festi¬ 
val which should remind us of the other 
side. 
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Among handy trifles which will come in 
very well for Christmas gifts are all styles 
of pincushions. Very pretty ones are fitted 
into the little round Japanese cat baskets, 
costing from two to five cents each. The 
cushion is made round and firm, first in a 
piece of stout muslin tied tightly round to 
keep it compact and then with a pretty 
piece of silk or plush. The inner edge of 
the basket is then glued all round, and the 
cushion fitted tightly ih. It should be 
made to fit well and rather larger than the 
basket, or it is apt to slip down. When 
dry, a narrow fancy ribbon is tied around 
the edge, and finished with a bow. 
Another novel pincushion is made with a 
child’s little wooden spade for its founda¬ 
tion. The cushion may be round, square, 
or oval, and is fastened to the spade by a 
touch of glue. Four little holes have pre¬ 
viously been bored through the spade: 
through these a narrow ribbon is passed 
tied in two bows at the back. These rib¬ 
bons pass over the cushion, securing it in 
addition to the glue. The cushion may be 
of any pretty color; a narrow frill all 
round is quite an addition. A little bow 
may be put at both top and bottom of the 
handle, with a loose length of ribbon be¬ 
tween, to hang it up by. The spade may 
be gilded or enameled. The same style 
may be carried out with a large wooden 
spoon instead of a spade. Another pretty 
pincushion may be made in the same way, 
and fastened on a small wooden palette, 
hung up by a bow passed through the 
thumb-hole. 
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As an aid to home dress-makers we 
may offer the following proportions for a 
skirt, which should haDg well. It consists 
of four pieces, a straight back, 37 inches 
wide; a front breadth 39 inches wide at 
the hem, and nine at the waist; 
one gored piece at either side, each 
34 inches at the hem, and 16 inches at the 
waist. It should have a thin crescent- 
shaped pad instead of a bustle, and a steel 
13 inches long should be inserted about 11 
inches from the waist. This will be found 
a good foundation for all the straight gowns 
now in vogue. 
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The fortunate housekeeper who starts 
with a really good collection of house linen 
will find the care of it afterwards quite as 
important as the first purchasing. It will 
last a very long time if it is only properly 
cared for. but it must be examined care¬ 
fully, mended, if need be, and thoroughly 
aired, after every wash. We have been 
perfectly astonished, on several occasions, 
by seeing housekeepers fold up their clothes 
and linen, and lay them away, immediately 
after ironing, without any airing whatever. 
The first essential for neatness and good 
care is a convenient closet. The shelves 
may be covered with old sheets or coarse 
muslin tacVed at the back, and left hang¬ 
ing a sufficient width to turn up over the 
shelf when the linen is arranged, to keep 
away dust. Hanging inside the door a list 
should be kept, giving all the articles kept 
on each shelf. Lavender, the orthodox per¬ 
fume for clean linen, is said by some to at¬ 
tract moths, so the housekeeper might dis¬ 
tribute little bags of cedar chips here and 
there through the closet, for the sake of 
the odor. 
Things in constant use should be put on 
the lower shelves; articles less called for 
above. Each pile of things must be well 
away from its neighbor ; each set of things 
well sorted. Different patterns of towels 
or napkins should never be mixed. Indeed 
it is really better for a house-keeper of 
modest means to get all her napkins, or 
towels, or table-cloths, of one pattern, as 
far as possible ; some will always wear out 
before the rest, and there is thus less dan¬ 
ger of broken sets. 
Always use the things in rotation, put¬ 
ting the last article washed at the bottom 
of the pile. Be sure that everything is 
marked, whether washed at home or not. 
Most ordinary marking is done now-a-days 
With indelible ink, but where time and in¬ 
clination allow, marking in cross-stitch is 
desirable. When ink is used, one of the 
patent glass pens, sold for the purpose, 
will be found preferable to any other. 
gUiv cation#. 
GOLDEN GRAINS. 
How different Is the life within our breast 
From what we seem to those who know us best. 
Better take the vow of abject poverty, 
and live up to it forever, than to allow the 
love of money to sap the spiritual life. 
Prayer does not directly take away a 
trial or its pain, but it preserves the 
strength of the whole spiritual fiber, so 
that the trial does not pass into temptation 
to sin. 
Rely upon it, this is the very substance of 
life, the credit sum when the balance is 
struck—practical usefulness. He lives to a 
good purpose who lives to do good and 
when his stewardship is ended, his works 
follow him. 
The moral courage that will face obloquy 
in a good cause, is a much rarer gift than 
the bodily valor that will confront death in 
a bad one. 
W E have certain work to do for our bread 
and that is to be done strenuously; other 
work to be done for our delight, and that 
is to be done heartily ; neither is to be done 
by halves or shifts, but with a will, and 
what is not worth this effort is not to be 
done at all. 
To FEAR the foe, since fear oppresseth 
strength, lends in your weakness, strength 
unto your foe. and so your follies fight 
against yourself. 
Domestic 0conomij 
CONDUCTED BY MRS. AGNES E. M. CARMAN. 
‘ Open the doors and windows, 
And let in the golden air, 
Sweep out the dust and cobwebs. 
And make the old home fair. 
For swift from hamlet and city, 
Swift over river and sea. 
My boys and girls are hasting 
To keep Thanksgiving with me .” 
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THANKSGIVING. 
I N our high-strung, hurried American life 
we have great need of all the helpful 
recreation we can obtain, and especially 
should we seek to foster and encourage the 
observance of any custom which tends to 
awaken the dormant emotions of gratitude 
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gether the family interests and ties. To 
that grand old Hebrew nation who long 
ago instituted and rigorously kept their 
annual Feast of the Tabernacles—or as it is 
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