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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
January 4 
From Day to Day. 
BILL JONES. 
Widow Jones’s Bill, he goes 
Fishin’ any time you like, 
An’ he’s caught at least, I s’pose, 
Half-a-million bass an’ pike. 
He can throw an “in” an’ “out,” 
An’ can handspring standin’ still; 
An’ his mother chores about— 
My! I wisht that I was Bill! 
He don’t have to dress up slick; 
An’ when some old button tears 
He can use a nail or stick— 
An’ one s’pender’s all he wears! 
He knows how to smoke—an’, sir. 
Heaps on heaps o’ times he’s said 
Bigges’ swears that ever were, 
Yet he don’t fall over dead! 
’Long when Summer comes, Bill, he 
’Tends a lot o’ Sunday-schools, 
Making them believe, you see, 
He’ll be ’bedient to rules, 
An’ ’ll fight an’ fight with sin 
Like a soldier—till, Gee-whizz! 
By September he’s took in 
Ev’ry picnic that there is! 
An’ las’ Christmas—listen, now!— 
When our Sunday-school all met 
For a tree, Bill, anyhow, 
Got more things than me, you bet! 
With a dandy sled, hard wood, 
That I guess I wisht I had. 
What’s the use of bein’ good 
When you might as well be bad? 
—Puck. 
We have heard of a certain small girl 
who illustrated very clearly the advan¬ 
tages of augmenting the efficacy of pray¬ 
er by uniting her faith with works. She 
was pained to find that her brother was 
setting traps to catch birds. Questioned 
as to what she had done in the matter, 
she replied; “I prayed that the traps 
might not catch the 'birds.” “Anything 
else?” “Yes,” she said. “I then prayed 
that God would prevent the birds get¬ 
ting into the traps, and,” as if to illus¬ 
trate the doctrine of faith and works, 
“I went and kicked the traps all to 
pieces.” 
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Chatelaine pockets made to match 
the gown are useful novelties. They, 
are flat bag shape, just large enough to 
tuck a handkerchief into, and are fast¬ 
ened to the belt by stitched straps of 
the same material. They are lined with 
silk and slightly stiffened with thin 
crinoline or canvas. Last Summer a 
good many women wore these pockets, 
made of white piqud, with thin white 
frocks; they were a great convenience, 
because it was impossible to tuck away 
a handkerchief in a bodice closing down 
the back, and it is always a nuisance 
when slipped into a sleeve. 
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Though the invention of the sewing 
machine has been to women one of the 
greatest of blessings, it has never put 
fine hand sewing out of use, as was at 
first expected. Its greatest use is in do¬ 
ing the rough work, so to speak; fine 
tucks and ruffles or dainty finishing 
must always be done by hand. A dress¬ 
maker who is unable to do the fine hand 
sewing is never really competent. The 
open fireplace is another example of the 
value of the old-fashioned things. When 
hot-air and hot-water registers and 
radiators were first used, they were so 
exceedingly modern that tne fireplace 
was looked upon as entirely out of date. 
Now all conveniently arranged modern 
houses include fireplaces. The fact is 
that while modern inventions are need¬ 
ed to simplify our complicated modern 
style of living, we have a tendency to 
go back to the old for comfort and 
beauty. Two or three decades ago peo¬ 
ple were replacing old-fashioned coun¬ 
try houses with showy incongruous edi¬ 
fices, finished with mansard roofs and 
jig-saw trimmings; now they are going 
back to the comfort and simplicity of 
Colonial architecture. We are realizing 
that, after all, our forefathers did not 
leave a monopoly of taste and judgment 
to their descendants. 
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A hanging work panel is a kitchen 
convenience; it is the more useful be¬ 
cause there is no space to be littered, 
like a work basket, with shreds and 
patches, or unfinished work. It consists 
of a piece of cretonne, linen or denim, 
l-i inches long and 11 inches wide. The 
lower edge has a series of small pockets, 
formed by stitching divisions in a strip 
half the height of a spool; this is to 
hold thread. At an upper corner are 
several flannel leaves to hold needles, 
and a loop of inch-wide elastic for the 
thimble. Down one side a strip of elas¬ 
tic, caught down at intervals by stitch¬ 
ing, holds tapes and bodkins. Three lit¬ 
tle pockets, placed one above the other, 
hold buttons and darning cotton. A 
charity among the poor, we are also 
likely to find the best examples of the 
broader spirit of human brotherhood 
among those whose fight against adverse 
circumstances would seem likely to 
blunt sympathy and consideration. A 
woman may be a leader in public chari¬ 
ties, but she is still an example of the 
“sounding brass and tinkling cymbal” 
when she crowds working giris away 
from their lunch room, or hunts from 
store to store for those cheap garments 
that are yet all too dear when they rep¬ 
resent the slow starvation of the under¬ 
paid worker. 
Fruit Drying in Oklahoma. 
Our three prize-winning pictures show 
very different corners of this broad 
country. The first and second prizes 
went to older or rather longer-settled 
parts of the country, and may be con¬ 
sidered examples of the old and the new 
—the roomy brick oven, now falling into 
disuse, and the modern interior. The 
third picture is especially interesting, as 
representing progress in a new Terri¬ 
tory. Many people in the East are like¬ 
ly to think of Oklahoma only as a 
sparsely settled wilderness. The R. N.- 
Y. has a number of good friends there, 
who are making that imagined wilder¬ 
ness blossom like the rose. Here is what 
F. Housholder says about the picture: 
“Fig. 5 displays about eight bushels 
drying. The long, beautiful Summer 
days of Oklahoma are just suited to this 
EVAPORATING PEACHES IN OKLAHOMA. Fig. 5. 
Winner of Third Prize in Photographic Contest. 
facing of strong material is put at the 
back, and a firm binding stitched 
around. Four brass rings at the top are 
used to hang it up by. Such a conveni¬ 
ence saves many steps, and takes up 
but little room. 
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In one of the large eastern cities a 
religious organization recently opened 
a lunch room for the benefit of the wo¬ 
men and girls employed in big stores 
near by. Well-cooked nourishing food 
was furnished at very moderate prices, 
so that a comfortable meal could be pro¬ 
cured for nine to 12 or 15 cents, and the 
women managing the enterprise hoped 
to gain the confidence of girls patroniz¬ 
ing the place, thus aiding them men¬ 
tally and spiritually. Unfortunately, 
however, the cheap and attractive res¬ 
taurant was discovered by women shop¬ 
pers, and soon it was so well filled by 
well-to-do people, for whom it was never 
intended, that the working girls were 
completely crowded out, and the place 
was finally closed. The majority of its 
patrons were people who could well af¬ 
ford to go elsewhere, who took the com¬ 
forts belonging by right to their less for¬ 
tunate sisters, and, doubtless, prided 
themselves on the economy thus dis¬ 
played. This incident gives point to the 
comment made by a young woman strug¬ 
gling hard for a living that women who 
are always well cared for and protected 
show little regard for the real rights of 
others. They are so accustomed to be¬ 
ing considered that they look at every 
question only as it affects them person¬ 
ally. Just as one often finds the truest 
kind of work. In two days from the 
time fruit was placed on the drying plat¬ 
form it was thoroughly dried and ready 
for storing away. The children shown 
in the picture take great delight in the 
work, and make themselves quite a bit 
of pin money in this way out of fruit 
that would otherwise be lost. The little 
four-year-old-shown in Fig. 5 is great¬ 
ly interested in the work, and is drying 
a whole lot for her dear little self to 
gee ‘Tismas sings with,’ as she says.” 
FOOD FOR A YEAR. 
Meats.300 lbs. 
Milk.240 qts. 
Butter.100 lbs. 
Eggs.27 doz. 
Vegetables.500 lbs. 
This represents a fair ration for one 
man for one year. 
Bat some people eat and eat 
and yet grow thinner. This 
means a defective digestion 
and unsuitable food. To the 
notice of such persons we pre¬ 
sent Scott’s Emulsion, famous 
for its tissue building. Your 
physician can tell you how it 
does it. 
We’ll send you a little to try If you like. 
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