100S 
Passe Partout Work. 
A young friend who met with a very 
serious accident, which debarred her for 
a long time from any occupation which 
required standing 8r moving about, often 
found the time hang heavily on her 
hands. Even the best literature wearies, 
no matter how fond you really are of 
reading, if jmu feel you cannot do any¬ 
thing else. But a pleasant occupation 
came to her which helped to while away 
what would otherwise have been many 
dull and tiresome hours. An acquaint¬ 
ance familiar with passe partout work 
gave her a few directions and practical 
suggestions, which soon developed into 
a fad, from which much amusement was 
derived as well as some profit. After 
making a goodly supply for presents she 
became so proficient in the art that she 
made them for sale, giving the pro¬ 
prietor of a fancy goods shop a com¬ 
mission for selling them. There was not 
a fortune in it, but the work was so 
light and attractive that a small com¬ 
pensation seemed well to repay the little 
trouble it was, and the outlay for ma¬ 
terials was very trivial. • 
Different colored cardboards were 
bought in large sheets for the mats, or 
to mount the pictures on. The glass was 
purchased in quite large quantities from 
a regular hardware dealer. It is much 
less expensive than purchased from a 
shop which only uses it for pictures. 
The passe partout binding is bought 
ready prepared, paying 10 cents for one 
dozen yards. The pictures ranged from 
two to 10 cents, according to' the size 
and quality. Many magazine pictures or 
colored supplements, like that of the 
Philadelphia rose, may be used if the 
selections are carefully made, and when 
neatly mounted are very effective. To 
make these pretty little pictures success¬ 
fully quite a goodly amount of taste 
must be exercised, and a little quickly- 
acquired knowledge. 
Use a table with hard, smooth surface 
to work on. If in danger of marring the 
table place a smooth hard board over it. 
A very sharp knife is also necessary. 
Place the glass, of the desired size of 
picture (the glass always controls the 
size of the picture), on the cardboard 
for the mat, or mount, cut around the 
glass with your knife. Use a cheaper 
grade of cardboard for the back, cutting 
it in the same manner. Mount the pic¬ 
ture on the cardboard designed for it 
with photographer’s paste applied with 
a brush, pressing carefully with a squee¬ 
gee roller over tissue paper, to ensure a 
smooth surface, without soiling either 
picture or mat in the mounting. With 
the aid of pencil and rule be particular 
to mount your picture exactly in the 
center of cardboard. Fasten one or more 
small brass rings to the cardboard back. 
Cut a small incision in it, push the ring 
111 rough the slit, put a piece of narrow 
tape through .he ring and glue it se¬ 
curely to the inner side. This leaves 
the rings to hang the picture by neat and 
free on the outside. Do this first, so the 
glue will harden. Cut your binding into 
required lengths, allowing a trifle at 
each end. Have a line drawn on your 
board; lay your glass over this line 
about the distance of half of your bind¬ 
ing. dampen one-half of the binding 
with a sponge, and press into place over 
the line. Turn the glass around and fit 
the binding to each side. Turn over the 
glass and put in the picture face down, 
then the back, rings on the upper side; 
moisten the other half of binding and 
press into place smoothly and firmly, 
cutting the strips of binding at the ends 
bias, or like those cut in a miter, so they 
will fit neatly at the corners. Put a 
weight on the picture for two hours and 
it will be ready for use. The beginner 
finds some difficulty in keeping the 
binding even, but this disappears with 
practice. One can now purchase a small 
appliance for keeping the binding even. 
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 
When a mat is used cut the material 
the same as for a mount, using your 
pencil and rule for the exact measure¬ 
ment for cutting out the center to fit 
your picture. It requires much more 
skill to fit a mat nicely than to mount 
a picture. A picture should be mounted 
on a very thin cardboard or heavy paper 
is better still when used back of a mat, 
as too many thicknesses make it more 
difficult for the binding to hold them all 
securely In place. In making these pic¬ 
tures be particular to shade them cor¬ 
rectly; much of the beauty depends on 
this. It is usually preferable to use the 
binding of the same tint as the mount 
or mat, or a shade darker, black on 
black, grey on grey, white on white, 
etc., but black harmonizes well with a 
dark grey mat, or with green, while a 
picture with some color in it should al¬ 
ways be used with a green mat. Choose 
one w'hich has shades of green in it, and 
when placed on a dark green mount with 
a black binding it forms a lovely com¬ 
bination. Very artistic creations may 
be produced from shades of browm, 
while some very quaint little pictures 
were made from those in which red w'as 
the predominating color. These were 
given wiiite mounts and dark red bind¬ 
ings. Photographs may be used very 
charmingly. The picture of a beautiful 
child, taken in several different attitudes 
and framed with the passe partout was 
very attractive. A long piece of card¬ 
board w'as cut to fit three pictures, and 
then made up the same as one. Still an¬ 
other had five different pictures of the 
same little one. There are many possi¬ 
bilities open to display individual taste 
and ingenuity in the passe partout w'ork. 
S.\RAn KOUNKY. 
A Little Girl’s Dresses. 
The child had lived her first two Win¬ 
ters in a furnace-heated, city house, so 
the prospect of the coming Winter to be 
spent in a draughty farmhouse heated 
by stoves, was looked forward to with 
some apprehension. She W'as to w’ear 
wool shirts, and long drawers that 
reached to the ankles inside her black 
woolen stockings, but what should wo 
do for dresses? We thought of plain 
woolen dresses wdth sleeved tires to go 
over them, but then we decided that this 
would make too much washing and that 
it w'ould be as much work to make tires 
as dresses. So we got two yards of dou¬ 
ble width, woolen dress goods, which 
made her two nice little Mother Hub¬ 
bard dresses. We got very good ma¬ 
terial, and the dresses were made large 
and so they could be let out for an¬ 
other Winter. The cloth is quite thick, 
but soft and not heavy. The child has 
blue eyes and light hair, so navy blue 
was the color selected, as it is becoming 
and will wash well. A little frill of 
washable lace was basted in .the^ neck, 
and the sleeves were finished with an 
elastic cord run in at the wrist, making 
a little ruffle. The dresses are very 
warm, and are comfortable, not drawing 
or binding anywhere. They are not 
lined, excepting the yokes, so they will 
wash and iron as easily as print. As 
woolen does not get soiled as quickly as 
cotton, we shall save much labor. The 
little girl has some thin, light-colored, 
sleeveless aprons, and these are put on 
sometimes to lighten the effect. T be¬ 
lieve in getting the best of material for 
children’s wool dresses. Cheap goods 
are not satisfactory, they fade and wear 
shabby in so short a time. Good ma¬ 
terial, on the other hand, looks well as 
long as there is a piece of it left, and it 
wears a great while. VTien the child 
outgrows the dress it can be passed on 
to some other child. 
susAX nuowx nonnrxs. 
PiTOir a lucky man into the Nile, says 
the Arabian proverb, and he will come 
up with a fisb in his mouth.—Willis. 
The Rural Patterus. 
The pleated skirt shown is made of 
moleskin cloth with trimming of French 
knot braid and handsome appliqu6 or¬ 
naments, but the design is suited to all 
seasonable fabrics. Fancy braid of all 
sorts is available as trimming or simple 
tailor stitching with silk can be substi¬ 
tuted if a more severe garment is de¬ 
sired. The skirt is cut in 11 gores, and 
the box pleat, which is arranged over 
the center back seams. The front gore 
is unbroken in length, as is the box 
pleat, but at the side seams are laid deep 
pleats that extend to flounce depth and 
are turned toward the front. The quan-' 
tity of material required for the medium 
size is 914 yards 27 inches wide, 514 
yards 44 or 52 inches wide. The pat¬ 
tern No. 4551 is cut in sizes for a 22, 24, 
2G, 28 and 30-inch waist measure; price 
10 cents from this office. 
The child’s box pleated dress consists 
of the fronts and the back, both of 
which are laid in box pleats, and is 
shaped by means of shoulder and under¬ 
arm seams. Extensions at the waist line 
in the under-arm seams, are laid in in¬ 
verted pleats to give extra fullness to 
the skirt. The sleeves are plain, in 
bishop style, and gathered into straight 
cuffs and the yoke is finished with a 
4502 Girl’s Box Plaited Frock, 
4 to 12 yrs. 
standing collar. When the sailor collar 
is desired it is arranged over the frock, 
on indicated lines and is finished with a 
band of embroidery that is extended at 
the front to give a stole suggestion. At 
the waist is a narrow belt that can be 
of the material or of the trimming as 
may be preferred. The quantity of ma¬ 
terial required for the medium size 
(eight years) is 5'V4 yards 27 inches 
wide, 314 yards 44 inches wide, or three 
yards 52 inches wide. The pattern No. 
4502 is cut in sizes for girls of 4, 6, 8, 10 
and 12 years of age; price 10 cents. 
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1903-1904. 
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American Bee Journal, ChlcaKO. Ill.. to.95 
American Boy, Detroit, Micb.60 
American Poultry Journal, Chicato. Ill.3U 
American Sheep Breeder, Chicat?' , Ui.80 
American Swineherd, Chicago. lU.:to 
American Queen, New York. .. .40 
Arena, Tho, Now York. 1 oO 
Atlantic Monthly, Boston. Jlass. 3.25 
Ave Maria, Notre Dame, li,d. l.7u 
Babyhood, New York. yo 
Baptist Union, Chicago, 111. 90 
Blade, Toledo, O.30 
Century, New York. S.'iO 
Cincinnati Weekly Gazette, Ciiicinnaii, 0.10 
Cleveland Daily World, Clevelaue. o . 120 
Cleveland Loader, Cleveland, O.80 
Cleveland Plain Dealer, Cleveland,©. . 1.3o 
Commercial Tribune,, Cincinnaii, O.40 
Conkey’s Home Journal, Chicago, 111.30 
Constitution, Atlanta, Ga. 80 
Cosmopolitan Magazine, Irvington, N. Y.85 
Courant (Daily ■, Hartford, Conn. 6.50 
Courant (Semi-Wooiily), Hartford, Conn.85 
Courier, BulTalo, N. Y.05 
Courier-Journal, LouisvlUo, Ky. .60 
Democrat and Chronicle, Rochester, N Y.55 
Dispatch, Pittsburg, Pa.85 
Enquirer, Ciucinnati, O. 70 
Everybody's Magazine, New York.95 
Everywhere, Now York. 36 
Family Herald and Weekly Star, Montreal, Can. .80 
Farm Poultry, Boston. Mass.60 
Forum, New York. 1.60 
Frank Leslie's Monthly, Now York..90 
Free Press, Detroit, Mich. .60 
Gleanings in Bee Culture, Medina, O...60 
Globe Democrat (Weekly), Bt. Louis, Mo.80 
Golden Days, Philadelphia, Pa. 2.'ib 
Good Literature. New York.26 
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Grape Belt, Dunkirk. N. Y. 1.00 
Harper's Bazar, Now York.90 
Harper's Magazine, Now York. 3.30 
Harper’s Weekly, Now York. 3.30 
Hoard's Dairyman, Ft. Atkinson, Wio.65 
Holstein-Friosian Register, Braltleboio, Vt.90 
Home Journal, Boston, Mass. 2.35 
Homo Science Magazine, Boston..65 
Horseman an I Spirit of tho Times. Cl.ieaco. 1.60 
Horse Roview. >Chicago, 111. 1.60 
Horse World, BulTalo. N. V. 1.30 
Household Lodger, Now York.00 
Housekeeper, Minneapolis, Minn. 50 
Housewife, Now York.25 
Independent, New York. 1.90 
Inter()oean, Chicago, 111.CO 
Irrigation Ago and Drainage Journal.60 
Judge, New York. 4.10 
Journal (Weekly), Boston, Mass.90 
Journal, Indianapolis, lud. 85 
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Little Folks, Now York. 1.30 
Living Church, Milwaukee. Wis. 1.60 
News and Courier, Charleston, 8. C.85 
North American Review, New York. 4.10 
Ohio Poultry Journal, Dayton, 0.30 
Outlook, The, Now York. 2.85 
Palladium, Daily, New Haven. Conn. 4.00 
Pilgrim, Battle Crer-k, Mich.90 
Pioneer Press, St. Paul, Minn.86 
Poultry Keeper, Quincy, HI.:10 
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Puck, Now York . 4 10 
Register, Wheeling, W. Va.75 
Reliable Poultry Journal, Quincy, Ill.30 
Republican, Tho (Weekly), Bpiingtield, Mass ... .90 
Review of Reviews, New York. 2.10 
Sabbath Reading, New York.45 
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Sentinel, Indianapolis, Ind. 30 
Sports of the Times, New York. . 3.10 
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St. Nicholas, Now York. 2.tU) 
Success, New York. 70 
Sunday-School Times, Philadelphia. P.n.80 
Swino Brooder's Journal, Indianapolis, Ind.45 
Table Talk, Philadelphia. Pa.60 
Thrlce-a-Weck Tribune, Now York..85 
Toledo News-Bee, Toledo, O. L85 
Tribuno Review, New York.85 
Witness, New York.85 
Woman’s Homo Companion, Springfield, O.70 
Wool Markets and Sheep, Chicago,Ill.30 
■World, Tri-Weekly, New York.t')5 
World’s Work. New York. 2.60 
Young People's Weekly, Elgin, 111.30 
Youths’ Companion. 1.75 
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