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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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Winter Nights. 
“When I was a girl,” said my neigh¬ 
bor, Mrs. Vance, “I slept in a north up¬ 
per chamber where there was no heat, 
and I used to keep the window wide 
open, even in the coldest weather, till I 
went up to bed. I know better now,” 
she added dryly. 
“And is that what made you have the 
rheumatism?” I asked, for she is a great 
sufferer from that disease. 
“It must have helped,” she answered. 
“I was always cold-blooded, and I had 
an idea it was silly to carry a jug or 
anything of that kind to bed with me— 
old-maidish, my brothers called it. So I 
would lie and shiver with the cold for 
an hour or more before I could get to 
sleep. It was a wicked waste of vitality. 
It kept me in a chilly, run-down condi¬ 
tion. and made me particularly suscept¬ 
ible to colds and sore throats, of which 
I had a generous number. But I thought 
I was very advanced, and looked with 
contempt on people who didn’t keep 
their windows open as I did.” 
“But surely,” I said, “you believe in 
fresh air still?” 
“More than ever, but fresh air doesn’t 
necessarily imply cold beds. Now I shut 
my windows right after dinner, and open 
the door into a room where there is a 
fire, and keep it open till bedtime. Then 
I open the window an inch or two inches 
—more if the weather is not very cold— 
and leave it so till morning. In this way 
I have both comfort and fresh air. If a 
person gets into a warm bed and has a 
good thick mattress and plenty of cloth¬ 
ing. he must sleep warm. 
“If the room cannot be heated from 
another room, or has no stove, then the 
next best thing is to warm the bed witli 
a hot soapstone. I have tried flatirons, 
jugs, hot-water bottles, bricks, sandbags 
and bed shoes, and a soapstone beats 
them all. They are so easy to handle. I 
made for mine a self-lined canton flan¬ 
nel bag, with a little flap that is fastened 
with a safetypin. All there is to do is 
to lay the stone on top of the stove till 
it hisses, then bag it and put it in be¬ 
tween the sheets, tucking it in so the air 
cannot get in to cool it off. It should bo 
placed there at least two hours before 
bedtime. 
“A great many people make the mis¬ 
take of thinking that a bed can bo 
warmed up in a few minutes from an¬ 
other room that is warm, or from a 
stove in the room itself. It cannot ha 
done. I’ve experimented, and I know 
that six hours is none too long a time, 
and longer is better. It takes heat a 
good while to penetrate a thick mattress 
and several comforters; if you don’t be¬ 
lieve it put a thermometer between the 
sheets and try it.” 
“But isn’t it weakening to—er—to 
sleep so warm?” I ended rather lamely. 
Mrs. Vance laughed. “I should think 
it was a good deal more weakening to 
spend an hour or two that should be 
spent in restful sleep in warming up a 
cold bed with the heat of your body. 
What do farmers say of men who house 
their cattle and hens in cold and drafty 
barns and sheds? They say it is 
wasteful and shows poor management. 
The principle is the same. A heat that 
caused perspiration would be weakening 
but just warm comfort is economical 
and saves strength for other things.” 
“Perhaps there’s something in what 
she says—for cold people, or delicate 
people,” I thought, as I walked home 
through a freezing Winter wind. “Pos¬ 
sibly that is why Grandpa sleeps so 
cold. I open his door half an hour be¬ 
fore he goes to bed, and always thought 
that was enough. I’ll try the new way 
to-morrow—it’s too late to-day.” 
So the next day I did as Mrs. Vance 
advised. I closed the windows of his 
room, and opened the door into the sit¬ 
ting room very early in the afternoon, 
and it stayed open till he went to bed. I 
put a light puff across the foot of the 
bed, also, for Mrs. Vance said one’s feet 
were the coldest part at night. 
“Well, Grandpa,” I said the next 
morning, “how did you sleep?” 
“The best I have this Winter!” he ex¬ 
claimed enthusiastically. “Why, I slept 
«•«;•«/—I wasn’t cold at all.” 
When I looked at the thermometei 
along after sunrise, and saw the mer¬ 
cury at six degrees, and knew the wind 
had been blowing all night, I had to ac¬ 
knowledge that Mrs. Vance had spoken 
whereof she knew. e. k. 
MOTHERS.—Be sure to use“Mrs.Wins- 
low’s Soothing Syrup” for your children 
while teething. It is the Best.— Adv. 
The Rural Patterns. 
The comfortable long coat shown is 
made of brown melton cloth with collar, 
cuffs and belt of velvet and trimming of 
heavy wool lace in tans, but all ma¬ 
terials suitable for girls’ coats are ap¬ 
propriate and the trimming can be ap¬ 
plique or fancy braid of any sort, or 
tailor stitching with silk only. The coat 
is made with a body portion, fitted by 
means of shoulder and under-arm 
seams, a pleated skirt and wide box 
pleat. The cape, when used, is arranged 
over the coat and included in the neck 
seam. At the neck is a turn-over collar 
and the coat is closed invisibly beneath 
the edge of the pleat. The belt is ar¬ 
ranged over the seam at the waist and 
terminates in points held by gold but¬ 
tons. The sleeves are ample, fuller be¬ 
low the elbows than above, and are fin¬ 
ished with cuffs cut in points to match 
the belt. The quantity of material re¬ 
quired for the medium size (eight years) 
is 6% yards 27 inches wide or 2% yards 
44 inches wide, with one-half yard of 
bias velvet for collar, cuffs and belt. The 
pattern No. 4581 is cut in sizes for girls 
of 4, 6, 8 and 10 years of age;price 10 
cents from this office. 
The pretty reefer figured is made of 
dark blue zibeline with collar of velvet 
and is stitched with silk, but all of the 
cloaking materials of the season are ap¬ 
propriate, cheviot, cloth and the like. 
The coat is made with fronts and back 
and is fitted by means of shoulder and 
under-arm seams. The fronts are faced 
4576 Girl’s Box Reefer, 
8 to 14 year.s. 
and turned back to form lapels which 
meet the collar that is seamed to the 
neck. The sleeves are wide and ample 
below the elbows but snug above, in 
conformity with the latest fashion, and 
are finished with shaped cuffs. The 
quantity of material required for me¬ 
dium size (12 years) is 2^/^ yards 44 
inches wide or two yards 52 inches wide. 
The pattern No.4576 is cut in sizes for 
girls of 8, 10, 12 and 14 years of age; 
price 10 cents from this office. 
Half Apple Pie.—This is described as 
the pie grandmother made, and is ex¬ 
cellent. Use under crust only. Choose 
an apple that will cook quickly; peel, 
cut into halves and fill crust. Fill the 
center of each half with sugar and a bit 
of butter. Sprinkle lightly with flour 
and grated nutmeg, add a very little 
water. Bake in a moderate oven. 
Household Congress. 
Cream Sponge Cake. —Two eggs, 1^^ 
cupful granulated sugar, one cupful thin 
sweet cream, one teaspoonful soda, Vz 
teaspoonful salt, two heaping cupfuls 
flour, and two teaspoonfuls cream tartar. 
M. e. n. 
Village Gossip. —I was much inter¬ 
ested in Rebecca’s experience given on 
page 762, for who living near a small 
town has not had such evils to contend 
with? What a pity that “village gos¬ 
sips” have not more cares to take their 
thoughts, and farmer folks a few less, 
but it is so universal in all small places 
and so habitual that one can but take 
a pessimistic view, and have little hope 
of any reform, for good literature, good 
sermons and the examples of good lives 
apparently have but little effect. 
M. E. B. 
“Send Me a IjEtter from Home.”— 
Now the holidays are coming closer, 
send letters from home freighted with 
love, blessed remembrances, and spiced 
with plenty of news. Let us reform, 
and instead of so much useless giving 
and stuffing, get up a letter fad and make 
them do just as much good as possible. 
Study the needs of the person to whom 
you write; comfort the sick, cheer the 
lonely, brace up the weak soul and sym¬ 
pathize with the hopeless one. Write 
all the news to the homesick soul to 
whom every little item is interesting, 
and don’t forget to put plenty of love in 
to season the whole. Hunt up the 
friends from whom you have not heard 
for many years. It will cause a revival 
of pleasant feelings, and who can meas¬ 
ure the good to come of it? A letter 
properly finished with Thanksgiving or 
Christmas cheer will find a v/olcome any¬ 
where. MYRON B. 
There is a remedy for all things but 
death, which will be sure to lay us out 
flat some time or other.—Cervantes. 
It must be borne in mind that our in¬ 
tellectual as well as our moral nature is 
ever liable to be powerfully affected by 
habits previously formed.—W, E. Glad¬ 
stone. 
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