1903 
5o7 
v^here the Sabbath means a day for 
noisy games among the children and 
gossip for the elders. Aside from all 
religious considerations there should he 
one day of rest for the busy housewife, 
and this cannot be procured if the chil¬ 
dren are off playing ball or swimming in 
the brook. The mother’s mind is with 
them, and she finds it impossible to rest 
or read while she Is sure the boys are 
ruining their best clothes and disturb¬ 
ing the neighbors with their noise. 
Many parents hesitate to say “you must 
not’’ for fear of seeming harsh and 
making their children hate the Sabbath, 
and it is well not to be too severe, hut 
surely children should know some re¬ 
straint. Because your neighbor weakly 
permits his children to become a nui¬ 
sance to the community, is there any 
reason why you should? Only a week or 
two ago eight or 10 boys chased a rab¬ 
bit over gardens, fields and lawns till 
it took refuge in a tile drain, and the 
father of two of the children compla¬ 
cently said: “Aren’t those boys having 
a good time?” 
The best and wisest way to deal with 
the boys who come coaxing the chil¬ 
dren away on Sunday afternoon is to 
send them home at once. Even if the 
parents are offended you simply cannot 
afford to have your boys get into the 
habit of fishing, playing ball and strol¬ 
ling over neighbors’ farms. How do you 
know what they are talking about when 
out of your presence? One bad hoy can 
corrupt any number of good ones with 
his vulgar and profane talk, and once 
the mischief is done you are powerless 
to undo it. One woman of my acquaint¬ 
ance keeps what she calls her Sunday 
box, and into it go the Sunday school 
papers as fast as they are received, for 
there is no school near enough for the 
children to attend, and she subscribes to 
four or five of the best publications re¬ 
gardless of denominations. These cost 
very little and are a source of never- 
failing joy to the little ones. While she 
takes her nap after dinner on Sunday 
each child has a new paper to read, and 
it is impossible to get through the four 
different ones till the mother wakes re¬ 
freshed and tranquil. The papers are 
discussed for a little while, and then the 
whole family starts out for a quiet stroll 
through the woods, unless the weather 
forbids. The children enjoy this keen¬ 
ly, for the father points out the different 
roots and herbs he used to gather for 
his mother, and the girls are on the 
alert for fiowers and ferns. When they 
sit down to rest on a log the children al¬ 
ways know that out of their father’s 
pocket will come some goody, for the 
wise mother never forgets that a little 
treat helps wonderfully to make this 
the best day of all the week. Sometimes 
it is homemade candy, sometimes nuts 
or dates, but more often the striped pep¬ 
permint sticks these little ones, with un¬ 
spoiled appetites, like the best. What¬ 
ever it is they hail the big box with de¬ 
light, and devour the contents under the 
green trees with birds and squirrels 
looking on. Mother and father rest in 
the shade, while the children hunt for 
birds’ nests, and then in the twilight 
they hurry home to do the chores. There 
have been no loud angry words, no 
fights, no torn clothes, but only peace 
and quiet. On rainy days when walking 
to the woods is out of the question a 
Scriptural game is brought out to sup¬ 
plement the papers, but usually reading 
occupies the time, as the children have 
been trained from infancy to enjoy good 
literature. 
The father of this family is encourag¬ 
ing other parents to give their boys and 
girls Saturday afternoon for the games 
dear to boyish hearts, so that when 
Sunday comes they cannot make the 
plea: “It’s the only time we’ve got to 
play ball.” The selfish fashion of mak- 
MOTHERS.—Be sure to use“Mrs.Wins- 
low’s Soothing Syrup” for your children 
while Teething. It is the Best.— Adv. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, 
ing the children work all the time is 
responsible for much of the trouble on 
Sunday. Give the boys and girls all the 
pleasure you can, so that they may have 
as many pleasant memories of childhood 
as possible to help them over the hard 
times sure to come later. 
HULDA RICHMOND. 
The Rural Patterns. 
A sailor blouse is always becoming to 
young girls. The waist shown consists 
of the fronts and the back and is fitted 
by means of shoulder and under-arm 
seams. Both fronts and back are gath¬ 
ered at the waist line. The neck of the 
blouse is cut away ahd finished with a 
big sailor collar. The standing collar is 
4426 Misses’ Sailor Blouse, 
12 to 16 yrs. 
joined to the shield and together they 
close at the center back, the edges of 
the shield being ^eld in place by buttons 
and buttonholes worked in the blouse 
beneath the collar. The sleeves are full 
at the wrists but snug at the shoulders 
and finished with straight cuffs. The 
quantity of material required for the 
medium size is three yards 27 inches 
wide, 2% yards 32 inches wide or 1% 
yard 44 inches wide, with Ys yard 27 or 
% yard 32 or 44 inches wide for shield, 
collar and cuffs. The waist pattern No. 
4426 is cut in sizes for girls 12, 14 and 16 
years of age; price 10 cents. 
The handkerchief bertha gives a very 
pretty effect to a child’s dress, as shown. 
The pattern may be simplified, if de¬ 
sired, by finishing the sleeves with a 
plain band, instead of the frill, and by 
making a plain full skirt without yoke 
or fiounce. It may be arranged to wear 
with a guimpe by making a circular 
yoke about two inches wide above the 
bertha. The quantity of material re¬ 
quired for the medium size, 10 years, is 
5% yards 27 inches wide, 4i/i yards 32 
inches wide or 3% yards 44 inches wide. 
The pattern No. 4428 is cut in sizes for 
girls of 8, 10, 12 and 14 years of age; 
price 10 cents from this office. 
Theiie is no self-delusion more fatal 
than that which makes the conscience 
dreamy with the anodyne of lofty senti¬ 
ments while the life is groveling and 
sensual.—J. R. Lowell. 
Housekeeping in Southern 
California. 
No bedbugs, fieas in plenty; no Win¬ 
ter fires, but Summer dust; many more 
advantages and disadvantages, as else¬ 
where in this mundane sphere. On the 
whole, the California housewife has the 
advantage, if only in one thing, and 
that is a healthy disregard of dust and 
untidiness, born, either of the climate, 
or an instinct that every window is open 
for nine hours out of the 24; nothing can 
be called dirt which is so thoroughly uis- 
infected. It is a rare exception to see a 
ranch without windmill and tank, the 
latter placed high enough to send water 
to every room in the house, as well as 
every water trough. Plumbing is not 
expensive. To view such primitive pip¬ 
ing would strike a congealed easterner 
dumb, till he recalls that Jack Frost is 
of no account here. 
Although we live on 50 acres, the ap¬ 
proach to the house is one-eighth of a 
mile, but this morning a Chinese gar¬ 
dener’s team traveled that distance to 
sell me two cabbages for five cents. If I 
had preferred I could have handed him 
four eggs instead. In January, when 
eggs were 30 cents, I have handed him 
two eggs and received back two heads of 
lettuce, enough sweet potatoes for din¬ 
ner and a few onions. The canning of 
fruit can be dropped altogether except 
by those families who, if all Pomona’s 
riches were in reach, would sigh for 
their Mason jars. Butchers, bakers and 
candlestick makers all drive in for or¬ 
ders and deliver the goods on their next 
round. The smallness and frequency of 
the ranches explains this. There is no 
extra hum of business in town to mark 
Saturday from any other day, as shop¬ 
ping can be done on any of the seven. 
To us this seems sacrilegious, but it is 
all in the point of view. A Spanish 
daughter from Arizona was plaintively 
remarking to me how very strict Cali¬ 
fornians were about Sunday. “Now in 
Arizona,” said she, “we used to have 
bull fights, play cards and dance!” 
When it comes to hired help the Cali¬ 
fornia housekeeper has to take a back 
seat, unless the orange, raisin, walnut, 
lemon, barley. Alfalfa, pumpkin or what¬ 
ever the money crop is, can stand from 
$12 to $30 a month and board. The un¬ 
reliable white girl begins with the $12 
and the reliable Chinaman ends with the 
$30. I know one rancher who employs 
the latter in his kitchen at that price, 
and his money crop comes from not 
more than 20 acres of oranges and 
lemons; there may be a private fortune 
behind this. g. Holland. 
When you write advertisers mention The 
R. N.-Y.and you wiil get a quick reply and 
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The Savings 
a Thrifty 
Man Will 
Pay Him 
of 
5 % 
T’HE INSTITUTION PAYING PEU CENT 
i cannot present better evidence of sound¬ 
ness or a cleaner record than this Company, 
operating for 10 years under New York Bank¬ 
ing Dept, supervision. Now employing a 
Capital and Surplus of 1,100,000 
Assets of.aSl,600,000 
We have never paid less than 5 per cent 
Business free from speculative features. 
Funds withdrawable at pleasure; earnings 
reckoned for every day we hold them. WHte us. 
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1134 KKOADWAY, NEW YORK. 
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Appropriate in its Name, 
Appropriate in its Route, 
Appropriate in its Character==- 
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This is Tfie century of all the 
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The New York Central’s 20-hour 
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A copy Of “ America’s Summer Resorts” 
will be sent free, postpaid, on receipt of a 
postage stamp, by George H. Daniels, Gen¬ 
eral Passenger Agent, New York Central & 
Hudson River Railroad, Grand Central Sta¬ 
tion, New York. 
A RURAL MAIL BOX 
Should bo 
simple, neat, 
strong, and 
durable. 
A box maybe 
approved by 
the P. M. Gen¬ 
eral a-,id still 
not bo satisfac¬ 
tory to the pur¬ 
chaser. 
Our “Uncle 
Sam’s Favor-jc^^t 
ite ” has official i- 
approval a n d ^ ^ 
al.sn the ap¬ 
proval of thou¬ 
sands who are 
using it and 
know it’s all right. 
BOND STEEL POST CO., 
Adrian. Mich. 
DON’T PAY 
FANCY PRICES FOR 
SEWING MACHINES 
We have made a contract with a large manufacturer by which we can supply 
subscribers with macliines at prices ranging from one-half to one-third of those 
asked by the retail trade. These machines are up-to-date in every respect. There 
is no handsomer or more servicable machine made. The “Drop Head” is the latest 
thing in the line of sewing machine work. It is extremely popular. When the 
machine is in use the head is in the same position as on ordinary machines, and the 
leaf shown on top is turned back to the 
left forming an extension table. When 
through using, it requires but one motion 
of the hand to drop the head down com¬ 
pletely out of sight. It is then protected 
from the dust and the machine makes a 
handsome table with polished top. It has 
all the attachments: ruffler, tucker, binder^ 
braider, foot-shirring side plate, four 
hemmers of assorted widths, quilters, 
thread cutter, hemmer and feller. It is also 
accompanied with all the accessories needed 
to operate the machine, and an elaborately 
illustrated guide book. We can ship you, 
freight prepaid, any place in the United States east of the Rockies, No. 1 for §19.50; 
No. 2 for §20, and No. 3 for §21. These machines are all alike except the woodwork. 
No. 2 is an exceptionally handsome design, and we feel will do credit to the The 
Rural New-Yorker in any home where it is used. These machines have a written 
guarantee for five years, and if not entirely satisfactory money will be refunded. 
The freight we pay in advance. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, 409 Pearl Street, New York. 
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