1903 
859 
The Rural Patterns. 
Coats that provide protection againsr 
rain and dampness are essential to the 
little girl’s comfort and health. This 
one is simple and can be made with or 
without the applied yoke. The model is 
made of mixed tan color rainproof cloth 
in light weight, but all waterproof fab¬ 
rics, of which there are many, are ap¬ 
propriate. The coat consists of fronts 
and back and is fitted by means of shoul¬ 
der and under-arm seams. The yoke, 
which is optional, is applied over it on 
4B63 Girl’s Kaln Coat, 6 to 12 year.o, 
indicated lines. The sleeves are ampl^ 
and finished with shaped cuffs. At the 
neck is a turn-over collar and a belt is 
worn about the waist that can be passed 
through the under-arm seams and under 
the fronts, or over the entire coat as pre¬ 
ferred. The quantity of material re¬ 
quired for the medium size (10 years) 
is 2% yards 44 inches wide or 214 yards 
54 inches wide. The pattern No. 4563 is 
cut in sizes for girls G, 8 , 10 and 12 
years of age; price 10 cents. 
House gowns made with the long 
princess lines are exceedingly graceful. 
This one combines loose fronts with a 
fitted back. As shown, it is made of 
beige-colored cashmere with yoke and 
cuffs of cream lace and bands of brown 
velvet ribbon, but the design is suited 
to all materials used for gowns of the 
sort. When desired the yoke can be cut 
with an open square, as shown in the 
small view, and the sleeve caps can be 
omitted, but these last give the broad 
shoulder line that is so much in vogue 
1665 Princess Wrapper, 
32 to 42 bust. 
at the present time. The wrapper is 
made with backs, side-backs, under-arm 
gores and fitted lining fronts over which 
the full ones are arranged. The yoke 
can be made with a pointed or plain out¬ 
line and at both front and back or front 
only as preferred. At the neck is a 
turn-over collar and the sleeves are the 
favorite ones that are full at the wrists 
where they are finished with pointed 
cuffs. The quantity of material required 
for the medium size is IIV 2 yards 27 
inches wide, nine yards 32 inches wide 
■ or seven yards 44 inches wide. The pat¬ 
tern No. 4565 is cut in sizes for a 32, 34, 
36, 38, 40 and 42-inch bust measure; 
price 10 cents from this office. 
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 
The Passing of the Muslin 
Undergarment. 
Of more importance than many a 
widely advertised household convenience 
is the ready-made undergarment of 
gauze, wool or mixed wool and cotton. 
Whenever I see elaborately trimmed 
white garments flapping on my neigh¬ 
bors’ clotheslines on Monday I am thank¬ 
ful that, like the Pharisee of old, I am 
not as other people are. The very wo¬ 
men who have no time for reading, fancy 
work, visiting and all the kindred occu¬ 
pations dear to the feminine heart, are 
always the ones who have time for mak¬ 
ing and keeping clean the embroidery- 
trimmed and beruffled white under¬ 
clothes. Across the fields from my home 
is a family of eight, where all the daugh¬ 
ters attend town school, and reach home 
too late to be of any service in house¬ 
keeping affairs. It is a weekly occur¬ 
rence to see seven and eight white petti¬ 
coats flapping on their line, with all 
other garments in proportion, and I 
often wonder if^ife is worth the strug¬ 
gle to that misguided mother when I 
think of the hours and houi’s spent over 
ironing board and washtub each week. 
Handmade underclothes are coming to 
be regarded as luxuries, and for the rich 
who can afford to give employment to 
skilled women to keep them in order, 1 
suppose there is much pleasure in wear¬ 
ing the dainty things, but for the woman 
in the country to waste her precious 
time making them, when ready-made 
ones can be bought at reasonable prices, 
is the height of folly. 
For Summer a gooci quality of lisle or 
cotton can be purchased for every mem¬ 
ber of the family for much less than the 
trimmed white garments, and after the 
first washday the delighted mistress of 
the house would not go back to the old 
kind for anything. She simply washes 
them in plenty of hot soapy water, 
rinses them well, and in an hour they 
are ready to take from the line clean 
and sweet smelling, as her neighbor is 
hanging out her supply of heavy white 
clothes over which she has toiled twice 
as long. The cotton vests and drawers 
are straightened out and put away with¬ 
out the labor of sprinkling, folding and 
ironing. They are light and absorbent, 
whereas cotton is stiff and warm for the 
heated season. Any woman who will 
labor for hours ironing embroideries and 
laces when the thermometer is up in the 
nineties deserves all she gets in the way 
of punishment from heat and fatigue. 
Then chere is the cotton petticoat, that 
is ever a back-breaking article on wash¬ 
ing and ironing days, unless it is of the 
sensible black sateen or dark gingham. 
The other day a visitor was horrified to 
hear me say I wore no white skirls ex¬ 
cept when white dresses compelled me 
to, and that I managed with good care 
to make one set last me nearly all Sum¬ 
mer. “You don’t mean to say you have 
not a short white skirt under that one?” 
she gasped. Five or six years ago I 
would have been ashamed to say yes, but 
I have learned better than that, and 
boldly confessed that short white skirts 
were no longer included in my ward- 
package of 
Lion Goffeo 
robe. She said she would not think of 
wearing anything but cambric garments 
with trimmings on all the pieces to 
match, and that she meant to spend all 
her spare lime this coming Winter sew¬ 
ing on white goods. When I remember¬ 
ed that she worked in an office, and was 
compelled to do her own ironing because 
of a limited salary, I was thankful I had 
no such ambitions. I am confidently ex¬ 
pecting the time to come when some sort 
of gauze night dress shall be invented 
to take the place of the only muslin or 
cambric garments we are forced to wear. 
In Winter the work of the housewife is 
even less than in Summer if she uses 
outing flannel nightclothes, for these 
need no ironing, and are so much more 
comfortable than the icy white ones. 
The wool undergarments must be care¬ 
fully washed and dried unless their day 
of usefulness is short, but the gowns 
and nightshirts are not injured by freez¬ 
ing. After the ironing basket has been 
robbed of the nightclothes, skirts and 
other undergarments there is very lit¬ 
tle left, and one can easily iron in much 
less than half a day. We wore enough 
stiffiy starched white clothes and slip¬ 
pery linen shirts when we were babies 
to last a lifetime, judging from the 
heavy long clothes our m.others are 
hoarding, so let us be comfortable now. 
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Up and doing, to live and help 
to live, the old reliable 
St Jacobs Oil 
Is an universal benefactor 
in the cure of 
H Hurts* Sprains 
and Br’uises 
Price. 25 c. and 50 c. 
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Rubber Goods Repaired. 
Coats, Boots, Rubbers, Blankets, Soles, Heels, and 
Patches. You can do it. Outfit, 26c. Agents wanted. 
CONNECTICUT RUBBER CO., Hartford, Conn. 
What Shall We 
Have for Dessert? 
This question arises in the family 
every day. Let us answer it to-day. Try 
JeBI~0 
a delicious and healthful dessert. Pre¬ 
pared in two minutes. No boiling! no 
baking! add boiling water and set to 
cool. Flavors:—Lemon, Orange, Rasp¬ 
berry and Strawberry. Get a package 
at your grocers to-day, xo cts. 
A RURAL MAIL BOX 
Should bo 
simple, neat, 
strong, and 
durable. 
A box may be 
approved by 
the P. M. Gen¬ 
eral and still 
not be satisfac¬ 
tory to the pur¬ 
chaser. __ 
Our “Uncle&— 
Sam’s Favor- t 
Ite ” has official's. 
approval a n d ^ 
also the ap- I 
proval of thou¬ 
sands who are 
using it and 
know It’s all right. 
BOND STEEL POST CO., 
Adrian, Mich. 
951®** L***® '^**0® 
handsome 
* 11 :— 
11 steel range 
without high closet or reservoir. With 
large, high roomy warming closet, tea 
shelves and reservoir j ust as shown in 
cut, J16.96. Re.srvolrls porcelain on in¬ 
side, asbestos covered on outside and set 
into a steel casing so that it retains the 
heat and keeps water much hotter than the 
old style. The lop of this big range is 
28x46 inches, has 6 cooking 
holes, largeroomy oven 20x 
18x13 inches with square 
door so you receive full 
benefit of the large oven (we 
have steel ranges with much 
larger and smaller ovens, 
sizes to suit all.) The body 
ofthis high grade range is madfr of 
cold rolled steel, top and all castings of 
best No. 1 pig iron. Crate; we use InS' 
Qfl for this 
Oak 
Heater 
just as illustrated. Burns 
hard or soft coal or wood. 
Has drawn center grate, 
corrugated (ire pot, cold 
roiled sheet steel body 
heavy cast base, large cast 
feed doer, ash pit door and 
large ash pan, swing top, 
double screw draft-regula- 
lator. Mickle plated urn, 
top ring name plate, foot 
rails, etc. 
We have heating 
stoves of every kind. 
Hot blast, air tights, the 
kind thatretailsfor$3.00, 
for 9Bo. Base burners 
at the regular price. 
provedduplex grate, burns wood or coal. NIckle trlmmlnge 
are a band on front of main top, bands and l^rackets on higlt 
closet, teapot shelves, frame and panel on oven door and clean 
out door. The nickle parts arv; all highly buffed and polished 
making the range an ornament to any house. 
this range to be the most perfect baker made as oven is asbestos covered, making an even and 
steady heat. We have steel ranges from $8.85 and up, 0 styles, made in all sizes. 
‘ “ are the most liberal ever made. We will ship you any steel range, cook or heating stove, 
guaranteeit to reach youin perfect condition, you can pay for it after you receive it, you 
_____ can take it into your own home and use it SO full days. If you don't find it to be exactly as 
represented and perfectly satisfactory in every way and the biggest bargain in astove you ever heard of and equal to stoves 
that retail for double our price, you can re .urn the stove to us and we will pay freight both ways, so you won'the out onesinglecent. 
m Tuic miT and send it to us and we will mail you our free stove catalog. It explains our terms fully, 
»iniw All UU I tells you how to order. Don't buy a elova of any kind unlll you get our oalalogue 
and see our liberal terms and the 
lowest prices ever made. Write now. 
WE GUARMTEE 
OUR TERMS 
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MARVIN SMITH CO., CHICAGO. 
Butchering Outfit 
Lessen the labor and save time on butchering 
day by using the right kind of tools. The 
ENTERPRISE \ (^1 
Sausage Stuffep ^ 
is the best machine on the market. Used equally well as 
a Lard Press. Cylinder is bored irue so that no meat can 
work up about the plate, has patented corrugated spout that prevents air 
entering the casings. No hot cylinder to handle when pressing lard. 
Hot cracklings can be removed without burning fingers. Price of four 
quart size, $ 5 . 50 . The 
ENTERPRISE 
fffeai Choppep 
chops quickly, uniformly, perfectly; won’t clog, 
can’t break or rust; made in all sizes, hand and 
power; No. lo is a good size to work with above 
Sausage Staffer. Price $ 3 . 00 , chops three pounds 
of meat per minute. Sold at all hardware and 
general stores. Catalogue free. 
The name “Enterprise” is on every machine. 
THE ENTERPRISE MF6. CO. OF PA., Philadelphia, Pa. 
JAYNE’S TONIC 
IS A HEALTH 
VERMIFUGE 
BRINGER. 
