1903 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
o’ consideration to Mrs. Blank,’ an’ I 
puts them on the shelf just as they was. 
and when a girl ’round the corner comes 
in and says she wants a dozen best eggs, 
to make a cake, I hands ’em to her. 
Well, ma’am, 10 minutes later she comes 
back and says she’d like to know what 
1 mean by selling her them kind o’ eggs 
—when she wants her eggs boiled, she’ll 
boil ’em herself—^and when she wants 
’em raw she’ll buy ’em somewheres else.” 
Mrs. Blank looked blank. “Boiled?” 
she murmured. 
“Yes, ma’am, hard boiled. I opened 
them eggs and every one o’ ’em was 
boiled hard as your head. An’ that was 
a new customer I just got, ma’am.” 
Mrs. Black produced her pocketbook. 
“Of course,” she said, “I’ll take the 
eggs,” and she handed him 20 cents. 
“But them eggs is worth more than 20 
cents now,” answered the imperturbable 
grocer. “The eggs is boiled now, and 1 
ought to charge real delicatessen prices. 
Then, too, 1 lost a customer ’cause o’ 
them eggs. I think them eggs is worth 
50 cents, but I’ll give ’em to you for 30.” 
Mrs. Blank sighed as she produced the 
extra 10 cents. After all, it is not al¬ 
ways the better part of wisdom to be too 
economical, she thought.—Cincinnati 
PJnquirer. 
June Garden Notes. 
My table to-day is decorated with a 
jar of pink moss roses. Their beauty is 
much enhanced by the rich, green foli¬ 
age that has been supplied with a liberal 
hand. The reason that the leaves are 
not brown and riddled with holes, or 
completely skeletonized, is because the 
rose bush was sprayed again and again 
with the blue vitriol, green arsenoid and 
lim#» mixture. Slugs and worms made 
a vigorous onslaught on my Tea roses, 
repeated spraying has kept the enemy 
ia check, but we may never say, with 
sunny smiles, the battle is won, and 
lay down our guns. 1 caught a spy, the 
other day, in the shape of a worm, 
striped with dark green and salmon 
shading to pink, making its breakfast 
on a dainty bud so near its own color 
that the catcher was, perhaps, more 
surprised than the thief. 1 can hardly 
say too much in praise of the Hybrid 
Tea Augustine Guinnoisseau or White 
La France. It is making the grandest 
display this season of any rose in the 
bed. The hint of pink touching its sat¬ 
iny petals is as delicate as the glow on 
a sea shell, and I can think of no apter 
phrase than airy gracefulness to de¬ 
scribe the general carriage of the buds 
and their gradual development. There 
is an insinuatingly lovely something in 
its character which one does not find in 
the Kaiserin Augusta Victoria, its stately 
sister. I have had the Kaiserin a long 
time, and love it, but regret its shyness. 
The White La France has already pro¬ 
duced more blooms than will the Kais¬ 
erin during the entire season. Several 
bucketfuls of soot put on the bed early 
in the Spring have, I think, deepened 
the color of my roses. As yet they have 
been given no manure water. Thk 
N.-Y. rose received two years ago 
(Ruby Queen), is in bloom for the first 
time, and is making a fine growth. The 
color is a pretty deep rose, blooms not 
very double, borne in clusters. 
We had our first pansies on the sup¬ 
per table last evening from seed sown 
three months ago. Thirteen lovely 
blossoms, no two of them alike. These 
October-like June days are simply ideal 
for pansies. I raised 120 plants from 
two packets of seed, and they are excep¬ 
tionally fine ones. The primrose seed 
was, I think, planted too early. Anxious 
to keep the box in a cool place I left it 
in a cold room over night and not a 
seed germinated. That was disappoint¬ 
ment number one. To offset it I have 
between 50 and 60 tiny Gloxinias from 
mothers.—B e sure to use“Mrs.Wins¬ 
low’s Soothing Syrup” for your children 
while Teething. It is the Best.—. 4 ^ 7 ?. 
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about 100 seeds planted. I waited until 
the days were really warm before pre¬ 
paring the soil. A shallow cigar box 
was filled wdth sandy loam and watered 
thoroughly. After letting it stand an 
hour the seed was scattered over the 
top and then I sprinkled soil over it 
very lightly. All of the ground was 
sifted through a wire netting—simply 
turned a window screen over a box and 
rubbed the soil through it. The box 
was covered with a pane of glass and in 
a day or two watered again, and the 
ground has never been allowed to look 
leally dry. I have given the directions 
hoping some other amateur will be 
tempted to experiment with these rare 
flowers. When the seedlings show up 
bright I always feel that half the battle 
is won. 
Phlox seedlings were set out among 
the tulips; when the latter were through 
blooming I cut them down and have 
new a bed of Phlox just corring into 
blossom. Heretofore I have dug up the 
tulip bulbs and planted geraniums in 
the bed—a rather slow and troublesome 
plan. Having no bed hardy for the 
geraniums I have kept them in large 
pots and boxes on the parches, which 
have been freshly painted as well as the 
pots. I am a firm believer in the gospel 
of paint and whitewash. Do you re¬ 
member how the scarlet geraniums 
gleamed out from the white wall.-^ 
around the court of La Rabida at the 
World’s Fair? I shall never forget that 
picture. I believe I have never men¬ 
tioned the usefulness of the old-fash- 
icned Day lily for the purpose of filling 
ui shady corners and planting up close 
to the foundation of the house. Its 
bioad, bright, green leaves are very at¬ 
tractive all Summer, and the white, 
sweet-scented blossoms are a joy fo • 
weeks. It will thrive in the hardest 
kind of clay. [The plant meant is evi¬ 
dently the Funkia, also called Plantain 
lily. The yellow-flowered Hemerocallis 
or Lemon lily is also called Day lily.— 
Eds.]. The lilies of the valley were just 
coming into blossom when an old hen 
got into the bed and never struck any¬ 
thing she liked so well. Fi/e tim^s wo 
chased her out in one morning; my, hut 
she was persistent! But the fifth was 
her last jolly old time on earth, for 
she was caught and penned up. The 
chicken soup next day for dinner had 
a decided lily-of-the-valley flavor, every 
one said. About the same thing hap- 
i'ered to the California poppies, only 
we didn’t catch the old hen. It seems 
a curious thing that Nature should have 
endowed old hens so lavishly with the 
most excellent qualities of will power 
and determination while doling out the 
same so sparingly to many of the old 
hen’s keepers. F orty Comet Asters were 
put into the cold frames after the cab- 
bege and tomato plants were taken out, 
and 30 more are in another bed. But 
the tale of my Comets will be told later 
DOCIA. UYKEiN«. 
The Rural Patterns. 
Tuckings of various widths suit the 
sea,son’s materials and are effective on 
the frocks designed for young girls. The 
pretty model illustrated is adapted to all 
the thinner washable fabrics and to all 
soft wools and simple silks. The dress 
consists of the waist and the skirt. The 
waist is made over a fitted body lining 
which can be cut away at yoke depth 
when a transparent effect is desired. The 
main portions are tucked for several 
inches below the upper edge but are full 
at the belt. The skirt is tucked in 
groups that harmonize with those of 
the waist and which fall free to produce 
a flounce effect. The quantity of ma¬ 
terial required for the medium size (10 
years) is 4% yards 27 inches wide, four 
yards 32 inches wide, or three yards 44 
inches wide. The pattern No. 4440 is 
cut in sizes for girls 8, 10, 12 and 14 
years of age; price 10 cents. 
The circular skirt figured is laid in 
graduated tucks from the hips to with- 
4440 Girl’s Tucked Dres.s, 
8 to 14 yrs. 
in flounce depth of the lower edge. The 
fullness at the belt is taken up by means 
of tiny tucks which taper to nothing 
and are stitched flat. The fullness at 
the back is laid in inverted pleats. The 
quantity of material required for the 
4429 Circular Skirt, 22 to30 waist. 
medium size is 614 yards 27 inches wide, 
414 yards 32 inches wide, or 414 yards 44 
inches wide. The skirt pattern No. 4429 
is cut in sizes for a 22, 24, 26, 28 and 30- 
inch waist measure; price 10 cents from 
this olfice. 
Dwell ye within cot or hall. 
Be ye lord or be ye thrall. 
Have ye joy or grief for store, 
Know ye this—from every door, 
Straight across the sky’s blue meads, 
ITp to heaven a pathway leads! 
—Clinton Scollard. 
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Will do two hours’ washing in 10 minutes. Washes 
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KAN.SAS CITT, Mo., 
May 14, 1902. 
“I have given your washer a fair 
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It has washed our heavy blankets with 
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rubbed more than an hour, and yet 
they had to go through again, but the 
“1900'’ Washer cleaned them thor¬ 
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very quick, and have no tired and 
worn-out feeling as of old.” 
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Where every hour brings Its several Joys.” 
“AMERICA’S 
SUMMER 
RESORTS.” 
Thi.s is one of the moat complete pub¬ 
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who are wondering where they will go to 
spend their vacation this summer. 
It contains a valuable map, in addition 
to much interesting information regard 
iiig resorts on or reached by the 
NEW YORK CENTRAL LINES 
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Should be 
simple, neat, 
strong, and 
durable. 
A box may be 
approved by 
the P. M. Gen¬ 
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not bo satisfac¬ 
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iihaser. 
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Sam’s Favor¬ 
ite” hasotlicial 
approval and 
also the ap-, 
proval of thou -1 
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know it's all right. 
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Adrian, Mich. 
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We helve made a contract with a large manufacturer hy which we can supply 
subscribers with machines at pi-ices ranging from one-half to one-third of those 
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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 
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braider, foot-shirring side plate, four 
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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, 409 Pearl Street. New York. 
