634 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
September G 
[ Woman and Home 1 
From Day to Day. 
A CITY VOICE. 
Outside here In the city the burning pave¬ 
ments He; 
There’s heat and grime and blown 
black dust to help the day go by; 
There’s the groaning of the city like a 
goaded, beaten beast. 
I know a place where God’s great trees 
go up to meet His sky 
Like an army green with banners, and a 
happy wind released 
Goes swinging like a merry child among 
the branches high. 
Outside here In the city there’s a poison In 
the air— 
The fevered, heavy hand o’heat that smites 
and will not spare; 
There’s little comfort In the night— 
there’s torment In the day. 
I know a place where cool and deep the 
quiet lake lies bare; 
All day about the shaded brink the wild 
birds dart and play. 
And willows dip their finger-tips like 
dainty ladles there. 
Oh, the heart of me Is hungering for my 
own, own place; 
I’m tortured with the slaying heat, the 
dizzy headlong race. 
Oh, for the soft, cool touch of grass 
about my tired feet. 
The breath of pine and cedar blown against 
my weary face, 
The lip-lap of the water like a little song 
and sweet, 
And God’s green trees and God’s blue 
skies above me for a spac3. 
—Theodosia Garrison, in Youth’s Com- 
panion. ^ 
A SATEEN petticoat usually begins to 
wear first on the inner hem. It is a de¬ 
cided advantage to apply an ordinary 
skirt braid fiat along the hem on the in¬ 
side, just reaching the edge; this re¬ 
ceives the rubbing and saves the hem. 
* 
TiiEBE is a right and a wrong way to 
prepare sliced peaches for dessert, and 
the wrong way is to peel thickly and 
slice raggedly, setting the peaches aside 
long enough to discolor badly before 
serving. The peaches should he peeled 
by plunging them for a few moments 
into boiling water, to loosen the skin, 
then into cold water. By this pro¬ 
cess the skin slips off, leaving the pretty 
pink tinge. Drop the fruit into ice water 
until sliced, to prevent discoloring, cut 
into even halves, removing the stones, 
and heap in a glass dish to be served 
with sugar and thick cream. If cream 
is unattainable a thin boiled custard 
is a desirable sauce. 
* 
Women in many parts of the country 
were recently swindled by a novel and 
alluring scheme. Advertisements in a 
variety of papers called for “local secre¬ 
taries” of an alleged National league of 
women, devoted to temperance, woman’s 
suffrage, etc. The name given was simi¬ 
lar to that of a genuine and reliable or¬ 
ganization, and as these “local secreta¬ 
ries” were offered a salary of $600 a year 
the responses were numerous. The vic¬ 
tims received glowing letters, and were 
requested to attend a convention of the 
mythical organization at Detroit, finally 
receiving checks for $25 each to pay ex¬ 
penses of the trip. Each intending sec¬ 
retary was warned that reduced rates of 
fare could be secured by sending $15 to 
an alleged passenger agent in Cleveland 
within three days. The checks were in 
most cases hurriedly cashed to send this 
money, coming back protested, while the 
seeker after employment was minus $15, 
which, presumably, fell into the hands 
of some one engineering the scheme. A 
woman who has battled with the outside 
world soon learns that easy and agree¬ 
able employment Is not obliged to hunt 
for takers, but a scheme of this sort was 
sure to gain many victims, because it 
gave money, apparently, instead of de¬ 
manding it. As in all other cases of this 
nature, the victims are likely to be wo¬ 
men who can ill afford to lose the 
money. 
A CASE for holding little top collars 
requires for its foundation a piece of 
pasteboard five inches wide and 15 
inches long. It is padded with cotton 
batting, perfumed with sachet powder, 
and covered with white or light-colored 
silk. Another piece of the silk, as long 
as the padded board and 18 inches wide, 
is hemmed all around, and attached to 
the board at one side, strings of baby 
ribbon being added. When in use, the 
little collars are laid flat on the padded 
board, and the silk folded around them. 
Another form of collar holder consist 
of two padded boards. Joined together 
with tiny bows at one side, and tied with 
ribbon strings at the other, like a 
needlebook, the collars being laid be¬ 
tween the covers. These would make 
pretty little Christmas gifts. Another 
small daintiness which pleases the femi¬ 
nine mind is a flat heart-shaped sachet 
to be worn under the bodice, pinned to 
the top of the corset steel. These are 
from three to four inches deep made of 
white or light-colored silk edged with a 
lace frill, and finished at the top by a 
tiny ribbon bow, behind which Is the lit¬ 
tle safety pin which fastens the heart 
in place. As shown in the stores, these 
heart sachets are covered with hand¬ 
some brocade to match expensive cor¬ 
sets, but any scrap of light silk will an¬ 
swer for the covering. 
A Photographic Competition. 
PHIZES FOR UAHOEN PICTUKES. 
Some time ago The R. N.-Y. offered 
prizes for pictures of domestic subjects, 
and many were the interesting photo¬ 
graphs received. Peeling that the farm 
garden deserves recognition we have de¬ 
cided to open another competition, the 
subject being farm dooryard gardens. 
The competition does not necessarily 
call for a complete view of the dooryard; 
it may be merely the planting about 
the porch, some particularly striking 
flower bed or individual specimen, or a 
group of ornamental shrubs. The one 
essential I’equisite is that the picture 
represents a real farm garden, not a 
mere suburban or counti’y place that is 
not an actual farm. Pictures submitted 
should be sufficiently clear for engraving 
and the winners of the prizes will be re¬ 
quested to write a brief account of their 
gardens. Attractive grouping and taste¬ 
ful arrangement will be considered, as 
well as evidences of care in manage¬ 
ment. We should like to see pictures 
showing hardy old-fashioned flowers 
and native shrubs, and no competitor 
need fear entering a garden riotous with 
grandmotherly paeonies or hollyhocks in 
competition with newer favorites. 
First Fnzo, - $7.00 
Second Prize, - $5.00 
Third Prize, - $3.00 
The competition is open until October 
1, 1903, thus affording opportunity to 
secure a picture at any season most 
favorable. Any further information de¬ 
sired will be furnished upon request. 
Address all pictures to Prize Photograph 
Competition, Woman and Home Depart¬ 
ment of The Rural New-Yorker. 
The Rural Patterns. 
Long-skirted coats belted at the waist 
have been extremely stylish this Sum¬ 
mer for linen and other heavy washing 
fabrics, and they will doubtless con¬ 
tinue in favor for some time. The coat 
figured combined with the skirt below 
would form a very desirable suit. The 
coat consists of a blouse portion, that is 
made with applied box pleats at front 
and back and is fitted by means of 
shoulder and under-arm seams, and the 
skirt which is attached thereto beneath 
the belt. The skirt includes applied 
pleats that form continuous lines with 
the blouse and is laid in inverted pleats 
at the center back, which provide grace¬ 
ful fullness. The right front laps over 
the left to close in double breasted style 
beneath the edge of the pleat. The 
sleeves are box pleated from the elbows 
to the shoulders, but form full puffs at 
the wrists, where they are finished by 
flare cuffs. The quantity of material re¬ 
quired for the medium size is 6^ yards 
27 inches wide, four yards 44 inches 
wide, or four yards 52 inches wide. The 
pattern No. 4494 is cut in sizes for a 32, 
34, 36, 38 and 40-inch bust measure; 
price 10 cents from this office. 
The skirt, which is cut sidewalk 
length, is cut in five gores which are so 
shaped as to fit with perfect snugness 
about the hips while they flare freely 
and gracefully below the knees. The full- 
nes at the back is laid in inverted pleats 
and can be stitched as illustrated or 
simply pressed flat as preferred. The 
upper edge can be finished with a belt 
or cut in dip outline and under-faced or 
4493 Five Gored Pkirt, 22 to 32 waist. 
bound. The quantity of material re¬ 
quired for the medium size is 6% yards 
27 inches wide, 3% yards 44 inches wide 
or 3% yards 52 inches wide when ma¬ 
terial has figure or nap; three yards 44 
or 2% yards 52 inches wide when ma¬ 
terial has neither figure nor nap. The 
pattern No. 4493 is cut in sizes for a 22, 
24, 26, 28, 30 and 32-inch waist meas- 
use; price 10 cents from this office. 
Popping of 
lamp-chim¬ 
neys is music 
to grocers. 
Macbeth. 
If you use a wrong chimney, you lose a 
good deal of both light and comfort, and 
waste a dollar or two a year a lamp on 
chimneys. 
Do you want the Index ? Write me. 
Macbeth, Pittsburgh. 
All Kalamazoo ranges 
and cook stoves are 
equipped teith patent 
oven thermometer. 
Makes baking sure 
and easy. 
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Manufacturers. 
Kalamazoo. MicKlgan. 
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or get all the 
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