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May 9 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
[ Woman and Home 
From Day to Day. 
THE ONE DEFICIENCY. 
Matilda’s joined a cooking class. 
At morning I awake 
To find a fringe of herbs and grass 
Around my bit of steak. 
At dinner decorations strange 
Are lloating in the soup. 
And there are forks and spoons that range 
Just like a warrior troop. 
And there are ruflles on the chop 
And lemons everywhere. 
I know not where the craze will stop. 
In fact, 1 should not care 
If all the viands thus arrayed 
With daintiness complete 
Could sometime and somehow be made 
More possible to eat. 
—Washington Star. 
* 
A MOP wringer which fastens on the 
bucket and is operated by the foot, will 
be found a convenience in houseclean¬ 
ing, saving a good deal of laborious 
work. 
* 
A NEW style of infant’s nursing bottle 
is flat in shape, like a soldier’s canteen, 
and made in two pieces, held together 
by a metal clamp which cannot be un¬ 
fastened by the baby. A rubber washer 
prevents leaking. The advantage claim¬ 
ed is thorough cleanliness of the inter¬ 
ior of the bottle, which can thus be 
taken apart and sterilized quickly. 
m 
To wash very grimy things, such as 
overalls and working shirts, mix to¬ 
gether equal parts of kerosene, lime 
water and turpentine. Shake the mix¬ 
ture in a bottle until creamy, then add 
a cupful to a boiler of clothes. It can 
also be used with hot suds, rubbing di¬ 
rectly upon dirty grease spots, allowing 
to stand five minutes before washing 
out, and then rinsing in hot water. In 
dampening clothes for ironing hot water 
that vary year by year, good breeding 
can be based upon regard for the rights 
and feelings of others alone; it is only 
artificial when the underlying character 
does not harmonize with outward ex¬ 
pression. Many persons of limited op¬ 
portunities, whose lives are isolated, 
form the erroneous impression that 
good breeding Implies much form and 
ceremony. This wrong idea makes them 
self-conscious, and consequently awk¬ 
ward, when transplanted to a wider 
4396 Seven Gored Skirt, 
22 to 30 waist. 
sphere. Knowledge of social forms less¬ 
ens this awkwardness, but does not en¬ 
tirely destroy it without the mental 
poise that renders one unconscious of 
self. We think all young people (and 
older ones too) are better fitted to meet 
the outside world when they know 
something of the customs of conven¬ 
tional society, but they err gravely when 
they think such knowledge of greater 
value than the homespun virtues that 
form the enduring basis of all society. 
The Rural Patterns. 
eludes a front gore and yoke in one, 
with box pleats at each seam which ex¬ 
tend to fiounce depth, and applied straps. 
As shown it is made of asparagus-green 
canvas, but all the season’s suitings and 
skirt materials are appropriate. The 
straps may be either of the same or 
contrasting material. The skirt is cut 
in seven gores, that are extended to form 
the box pleats, and is made with a habit 
back. The graduated straps are applied 
over all seams and are stitched to posi¬ 
tion over the pleats. The quantity of 
material required for the medium size 
is yards 27 inches wide, yards 44 
inches wide, or 5% yards 52 inches wide, 
when material has figure or nap; 
yards 27 inches wide, five yards 44 inches 
wide, or 4% yards 52 inches wide when 
material has neither figure nor nap. 
The pattern No. 4396 is cut in sizes for 
a 22, 24, 26, 28 and 30-inch waist mea¬ 
sure; price 10 cents from this office. •• 
Why don’t you get a 
Horseshoe Brand Wringer ? 
Jt •will lighten your day '5 •work 
Every wringer is warranted from one to five 
year*. The rolls are made of Para Rubber. 
They wring dry, last long, and will not break 
buttons. Our name and trade-mark is on 
every wrifiger and roll. 
The American Wringer C 
99 CHAMBERS ST. 
ringer 
NEW YORK CITY 
lO. 
We 
manufacture the Wringers that wring 
the Clothes of the World 
is much better than cold; the mois¬ 
ture is more even, and the clothes are 
sooner ready for the iron. Knit under¬ 
wear, stockings and other rough pieces 
should be merely run through the 
wringer when dry, or folded and laid in 
a smooth pile with a heavy board and 
weight on top, the labor of ironing be¬ 
ing done away with. 
CoKK'ESPONDENCE schools of all sorts 
continue to spring up, and one of the 
newest Is a school of self-culture, which 
offers to teach good manners by mail. It 
will instruct in the correct thing to say, 
to do, to write or to wear upon all occa- 
‘J397 Boy » Kusslan Blou.se Suit 
2 to 6 yrs. 
sions, and will maintain a bureau of in¬ 
quiry whereby persons may keep in 
touch with changing social forms. At 
first thought one is amused by the in¬ 
nocent social snobbery which wouid cul¬ 
tivate outward forms rather than the 
inward graces of mind and heart, yet, 
after all, these forms have their value, 
like the stamp Uncle Sam puts upon a 
bar of virgin metal. Intellectual force 
and moral worth are the real things, yet 
they must fail of ordinary recognition 
if obscured by boorish manners or slov¬ 
enly dress. Apart from the trivial forms 
No garment yet devised suits the 
small boy more perfectly than does the 
Russian suit. The one illustrated suits 
a variety of materials, all the sturdier 
washable fabrics, silk, serge, mohair, 
velveteen and velvet, but as shown is of 
checked linen and is worn with a patent 
leather belt. The suit is made with 
knickerbockers and Russian blouse. The 
knickerbockers are snug about the hips 
but are gathered below the knees and 
droop over their edges. The blouse is 
shaped by means of shoulder and under¬ 
arm seams and is closed at the left side. 
The sleeves are full and are gathered in¬ 
to straight cuffs. The neck is finished 
with a standing collar and at the waist 
is a belt that is passed through straps at 
the under-arm seams. The quantity of 
material required for tlie medium size 
(four years) is four yards 21 inches 
wide, 3% yards 27 inches wide, or two 
yards 44 inches wide. The pattern No. 
4397 is cut in sizes for boys 2, 4 and C 
years of age; price 10 cents. 
The yoke effect is a marked feature of 
skirts this Spring. The model shown in- 
HoiTie=Made Soap 
Ten pounds of the best hard soap or twenty gal¬ 
lons of soft soap costs just this, nothing more: 
Tea mimites, almo.stuo trouble at all, the grease 
or fat that you often pour down yoiir kitchen sink 
(stopping up the pipes) and a can of 
Banner Lye 
obtainable at your grocer’s for ten cents. 
It is pure soap—not soap adulterated with 
rosin, lime, clay, or other things that turn your 
clothes yellow and wear them out. 
The New Cleanliness 
Soap will take away the dirt that you see, but not 
the dirt that you can’t see. 
Nothing is sure to take 
away this dirt, but Banner 
Lye. Use it in your 
Milk-pane Butter-tube 
MUk-paile Dairy 
Sink Draine 
Cellar Toilets 
Garbage-pails 
—wherever dirt and germs 
collect—and your house 
will not only look clean, 
but be clean and in the 
best possible condition to 
resist disea.se. 
Banner Lye also is a great 
help in washing dishes and 
clothes and everything else. It is odorless and 
colorless, easy to use, safe and cheap. 
Write for book” Uses of Banner Lye,” and give ns 
yourgrocer’s or druggist’s name, should he not have it. 
The Penn Chemical Works, Philadelphia, U.S.A. 
THE KEYSTONE 
WATCH CASE CO, 
Philadelphia. 
BOSS 
stiffened GOIB 
watch Cases 
are guaranteed for 25 years. Few 
solid gold cases will last that 
long without wearing too thin, 
to safely protect the works. If 
you want a watch case for pro¬ 
tection, durability and beauty, 
get the Boss with the key- 
^ stone trade-mark stamped 
W Inside. Send for booklet, i 
We will send any bicycle to any address with the on- 
derstanding and agreement that you can give It 10 
DAYS’ FREE TRIALand if you do not find Iteaslerrun- 
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more up to date and higher grade than any bicycle 
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Buya_ our new HIGH GRADE 1903 
$10.95 
NEWTON BICYCLE, which we guar- 
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equipped; better frame, wheels, hubs and bearings 
than you can get In any other bicycle for less than *20.00. 
OUR 1903 NAPOLEON BICYCLE is priced at 
about ONE-HALF the lowest price asked by others. 
For Free Bicycle Catalogue, hundreds of price surprises 
in bicycles and supplies, our Free Trial and Guarantee 
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mail to SEARS, ROEBUCK &CQ., CHICAGO 
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walls and ceilings; never rubs or scales; easy 
to apply; mix with cold water. Better th .n 
glue kalsoniines, or poisonous wall paper 
Free, services of our artists In mak.ng color 
plans, also card of dainty tints. 
Alabastine Co., Grand Rapids. Mich, 
and 106 Water Street, New York City. 
Mention this paper. 
Any one run briiib it on ; no one enn rub It off. 
RHEUMATISM 
A CURE GIVEN BY 
One Who Had It, 
Nine yoar.s ago I wa.<! at¬ 
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inatory rheumati.sm. 1 .suf¬ 
fered a.s those wlio have it 
know, for over three years, 
and tried nlmo.st everything. 
Finally I found a remedy that 
cured me completely and it tias 
not returned. I have given it to a 
number who were terribl.\ afflicted, and it cfTected 
a cure in every ea.se. Anyone desiring to give this 
preeioms remedy a trial, 1 will send it on receipt of 
10 cents in stamps to pay mailing. Address 
MARK H. JACKSON, 952 Univ. Block, Syracuse, N. Y 
” The Sphinx of the Twentieth Century.” 
ASIA AND 
THE CHINESE EMPIRE 
Comparatively few people are 
familiar with the Chinese Empire 
as it exists to-day. In view of the 
constantly growing Oriental com¬ 
merce of the United States, every¬ 
one should become familiar with 
the Chinese Empire. The 
NEW YORK CENTRAL'S 
“ h''our-Track Series” No. 28 gives 
valuable statistics and informa¬ 
tion regarding the Flowery King¬ 
dom, and contains a new and 
accurate map in colors. 
A copy of No. 28, ” A New Map of Asia 
and the Chinese Empire,” sent free, post¬ 
paid, on receipt of live cents In stamps by 
George H. Daniels.General Passenger Agent, 
New York t'entral Kallroad, Grand Central 
Station, New York. 
“Big Four ’ 
TIIK 
World’s Fair Route 
FUOM THE 
Leading Cities of 
Ohio, Indiana 
and Illinois 
TO 
St. Louis 
WRITE FOR FOLDERS. 
AVAKKEN J. LYNCH, W. P. DEPl’E, 
Gen’l Pass. Agt. Ass’t Gen’l P. A. 
CINCINNATI, OHIO. 
