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DESCRIPTION OF CRTS. 
No. 6524 13 designed especially for old ladles. 
The mateilal used Is soft gray goods, and the dec¬ 
orations consist of silk bands and pipings and 
bows. Eight and three-eighth yards of material 
twenty-two Inches wide are required to make the 
garment. 
Nos. 6437 and 6189 represent Princess dresses 
which can be used to advantage by ladles of al¬ 
most any age. They are graceful, not at all trying to 
the figure, and by the omission or addition of trim¬ 
ming they can be made suitable for home use or 
for more dressy occasions. Price of patterns 30 
cents. 
No. 64-87. Ladles’ Trained Princess. Three mate¬ 
rials ave used In Its construction, two of them be¬ 
ing plain goods in two shades, and the third oa- 
rrwsse. It comprises a basque and skirt which 
are permanently united. With the pattern are 
sent full directions for cutting, fitting and arrang¬ 
ing, so that there Is no necessity of my glrlng any 
Information of that kind hero. A most fashlona- 
and elegant combination would be two shades of 
cameo silk and (lamasse or Radtzmier stripe. 
Pearl silk, sapphire velvet, pearl and sapphire 
Pekin stripe Is another combination. A very showy 
toilet of maize silk, ruby velvet and maize rtamasse, 
and a tasteful, French-looking one of blue silk In 
two shades, and apple-blossom Radtzmier stripe 
are a few of the many elegant and showy combi¬ 
nations which look admirably made up in this 
style. To make the garment win require eleven 
and five-eighths of light, goods, and four yard 3 of 
6487 
dark, each twenty-two Inches wide, together with 
two yards and three-eighths of the fancy goods— 
either damasse or some one of the fashionable 
stripes. Price of pattern 50 cents. 
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ST. PAUL’S ADVICE. 
A Troubled Woman of Timberville Wants Light. 
Editor “ Woman’s Kingdom,” Inter-Ocean— 
Timberville, Aprils.—You know, or will when 
I have told you. that Tlmborville has always been 
a very quiet town, with orderly and sedate inhabi¬ 
tants—that Is, the majority of them. For myself, 
1 was blessed with a Christian mother, who. I 
trust, taught me my womanly duties well, and 
early to read t he Divine word. The teachings of 
St. Paul sunk deep Into my heart, l felt, with 
him, that it was “ better not to marry,” unless I 
could greatly better my condition. As no such 
opportunity offered, the memory of my sixteenth 
summer had grown dim in the shadows of the 
past, and 1 was still In maiden meditation fancy 
free, when a “ woman’s rights woman" awakened 
quite a turmoil In our midst. Not by anything she 
said to us. for she was only a woman, and we paid 
but little heed to her words. But she aroused the 
opposition of Elder JeuKlns, who Is a powerful 
Scripture expounder, and he preached a long and 
lucid sermon from I. Corinthians xiv. t 85: " And 
If they will learn anything, let them ask their 
husbauds at home.” T liked the sermon, but I 
must confess to great perplexity, i had followed 
8t. Paul’s advice In not marrying, and therefore 
had no husband to aslc, and there were so many 
things I wanted to know. Concluding the next 
best thing would be to ask the opinion of wives 
who had learned of their husbands, I sallied forth. 
Mrs. Sam .Tones was the first on my list. “ Yes,” 
she said, “that was a very fine sermon yesterday. 
It would he all well enough to ask our husbands 
If St. Paul had only directed them to answer. But 
so long as he didn’t, and they won't, we’re precious 
well off, I can assure you.” Here Paul says, “ And 
If they win learn anything." Now, there are lots 
of things 1 want to know—for Instance, how much 
Sam pays a year for cigars, when he says times 
are so hard that I must wear my old bonnet this 
season. I’d like to know If It Is at the lodge he 
stays so late so many nights In the week. 
The other day I went down town for a bottle 
of soothing simp, for baby had fretted all night 
and was so cross that day I couldn’t get my work 
done, and what should I see but Sam talking as cosy 
as could be with a mighty pretty girl. He was so In¬ 
does appear,’ and when she, to quiet him down, 
asks him about the mystery of salvation by faith, 
or the efficacy of prayer, he will say ‘When a man 
comsh home tired (hlc) he don’t <hlc> want to talk 
nonshens (hlc).’ A nice teacher of spiritual things, 
bets!” “Andthere's Melinda Smith,” says she; 
“ her husband tells her that she has five senses as 
terested he never saw me as I hurried past him, so 
anxious was 1 about my poor teething baby at 
home.” “ Now, I’d like to know who she was, but, 
my salces, you ought to see how mad Sam gets 
when 1 ask him such questions.” “Then, again,” 
she ran on, “ if we want to learn anything we must 
ask of our husbands at home—it we could only ask 
'em In company they wouldn’t dare to answer us 
so. It may be Paul didn’t marry himself, hut he 
knew mighty well how to please the men who 
were married.” “And then, to add Insult to In¬ 
jury, he must say, ‘It they will learn anything.’ as 
If It were, a matter of doubt, whether such stupid 
creatures as we would ever want to know any¬ 
thing.” “But, .Mrs. Jones,” said I, as soon as I 
could get a word In edgewise, she was so excited. 
“ Perhaps St. Paul meant only those things that 
well as he—brains—If she will only use them, and 
what sense Is there In asking him about things she 
ought to understand better than he, he told her; 
her lungs were smaller than his, and probably of 
more delicate texture, and there would be just as 
much sense when she wanted a breath of fresh air 
for her to send him out walking and then take his 
breath when he came in. He says she must eat 
for herself, breathe for herself, and think for her¬ 
self." I went home discouraged, and now dear 
Editor, you will see why I appeal to you. If you 
can give me any light on this, there are other 
things Paul said I want to ask you about. But 
now I want to know chiefly what women who 
have no husbands shall do. and next, how shall 
women who have husbands find out things? 
Your inquiring sister, Dorcas Allen. 
concern our spiritual well-being." “ oh r that Is 
what you think he means,” said she; “well, you 
ought to hear Seth Green’s wife tell how Seth comes 
home nights all scented up with tobacco and whis¬ 
ky, and when he hears the children sing their little 
hymns and say their baby prayers, Seth breaks In 
with ‘ We won’t go home till morning, till daylight 
A DENTAL HINT. 
Perhaps among Rural readers there may be 
some who, like myself, cannot take medicine 
through a tube and it Is possible the following 
suggestion may be of some benefit to them. Hav¬ 
ing occasion lately to take some very acid med¬ 
icine and knowing by experience I could not use 
a tube, I applied to two or three druggists for 
something that would neutralize the effect of the 
acid. (I meant or course to take the medicine and 
simply rinse m.y mouth out with the neutralizer.) 
with great unanimity they recommended me to 
use first, clear cold water and then prepared 
chalk. I followed their directions, using quarts 
of water for rinsing purposes and chewing a pound 
or so of chalk. The result was far from satis¬ 
factory. My teeth ached and the acid “feeling” 
never left them. I remembered that on one occa¬ 
sion a dentist had ordered me lime-water to cor¬ 
rect acid saliva. T determined to give the lime a 
trial, and purchased two cents worth of It. I 
slacked a small portion and used It with the 
most beneficial results. I pour the medicine 
Into one goblet and have the other filled with 
the lime water. The medicine I drink as rapidly 
as possible and before the last of It Is fairly down 
I take a mouthful of the lime-water and do some 
very Industrious work In the way of rinsing. All 
acids are Injurious to the teeth and those who eat 
a great deal of fruit would do well to take a lime- 
water rinse quite frequently. L . M . 
€\Uxm ©iscellani). 
AN UGLY GIRL. 
(Continued from page 286.) 
CHAPTER X. 
AFTER the fall. 
The torture consequent on the reducing of a bad 
fracture awoke Noel Estcourt from the lengthy 
period of his insensibility that followed his fall. 
At first he had no distinct recollection of what 
had happened, and made an effort to raise his head 
and look round: but It was pressed gently down 
on the pillows of the bed to which he had been 
carried, and the violent pain that followed the 
effort extorted from htm a groan. Then he felt 
tears falling on his face, and heard a voice exclaim 
pitifully: 
“Ah: he suffers so. Can nothing be done to 
give him ease v 
“ Nothing more than we are already doing, my 
dear young lady,” answered one of the busy sur¬ 
geons, coming to the side of the speaker, and reel¬ 
ing the pulse of his patient. “ Lord Carisforde is 
seriously, if not dangerously, hurt. His right leg 
is fractured In two places, but the Injuries to his 
head and side are of more Importance than a broken 
limb. Still, if his constitution Is good, and neither 
fever nor erysipelas ensue-” 
“Why speak of what may happen?” was the 
impatient reply. “ is not the evil of the present 
enough to grapple with? Cannot you suggest 
anything to alleviate the pains that now rack 
him?” 
“ Pray don’t agitate yourself said Dr. Monson, 
kindly. “He is not conscious. As yet he does 
not feel the effects of his accident as acutely as 
you do.” 
“ Then, I have had an accident,” muttered Noel, 
endeavoring to collect his senses. “ Yes, I recol¬ 
lect : the ladder broke, and I fell with It. But Miss 
Gray?” 
“ Is safe—quite safe," answered Hllllan herself, 
with a sob. “Yes. lam here. Let me hear you 
say that you forgive me for being the unfortunate 
cause of your sufferings. If 1 had not gone Into 
the tower to look for Pldo—poor Fldo. whom I 
did not save, after all—this might not have hap¬ 
pened." 
“No.no: you are quite mistaken,” Noel feebly 
insisted. "Do not reproach yourself: no blame 
attaches to you. 1 did not know you were there. 
It was to find—to rescue—Miss Carisforde.” 
He could say no more, for a deathly faintness 
was creeping over him; but still he could hear, 
though Indistinctly, the surgeons conferring to¬ 
gether as they stood by his bed. 
“We must have a regular nurse from one of the 
hospitals. Nonsense ! my dear miss Gray. Your 
