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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
February 8 
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: Woman and Home \ 
From Day to Day. 
UNCLE BEN ON THE SEASONS. 
Summer ’r Winter? 
Which of ’em do I like best? 
Well, I dunno: 
There ain’t much choice atween ’em, fur as 
I’m concerned, but jest 
The same, it sort o’ strikes me that I like 
the Winter best, 
On the hull. 
Kind ’f sets the blood a-jumpin’ when the 
frost gits in the air. 
And a feller keeps a-humpin’, jest as 
though he didn’t care 
How much he worked. 
But in Summer, when the weather gits so 
drowsy like and hot, 
It ain’t so blamed enticin’ in the big east 
medder lot 
As you might think; 
And it’s tough to go to pitchin’ on and 
pitchin’ off the hay, 
Though of course the very meanest work 
’s to have to mow away. 
But it’s exhilaratin’, sort of, when it's 
rippin’ good and cold; 
Makes a feller kind of frackshus, like some 
hosses, hard to hold; 
And it seems to sort o’ git a person’s liver 
into gear 
More 'n Summer weather does or any other 
time o’ year— 
’Thout it’s Fall. 
Eat! 
Why, I’ve been off my feed all Summer, 
never cravin’ nothin’ much, 
And the way I’ve gone to eatin’ in the Fall 
’d beat the Dutch! 
Couldn’t seem to git enough o’ mother’s 
buckwheat griddle cakes. 
And when it come to pun’kin pies—Oh, my 
goodness, mercy sakes! 
Why, I used to be ashamed about the way 
I used to eat, 
When the frost ’d come and sorter set a 
feller on his feet; 
Still, I’m fond enough of Summer, and I 
ain’t so sure that Fall 
Ain't about as good as any time, but Win¬ 
ter’s best of all— 
’Thout it’s Spring. 
—The Delineator. 
* 
Pretty tailor-made belts are of 
stitched taffeta, 'tapering from a width 
of 1 y 2 inch in the back to one-half inch 
in front. They fasten with very small 
gilt harness buckles. 
* 
When the pepper season comes round 
again, the cook should remember that 
although soap and water will not re¬ 
move the burning produced by handling 
red peppers, milk will. It is very sooth¬ 
ing to such inflammation. 
According to present predictions the 
Summer blouses will have narrower 
wrist bands, with a soft turnback cuff. 
A great many women prefer to leave 
even the plain shirt cuffs on their 
blouses unstarched, though this causes 
the garment to lose its freshness very 
soon. Sets consisting of soft turnover 
cuffs and collars are shown in very 
many styles, especially colored linen 
embroidered in black or white. The col¬ 
lars do not form two tabs, but are in 
one strip reaching its greatest depth in 
front, where it forms a point or scallop. 
Another adjunct to the Summer blouse 
is a stock collar having a four-in-hand 
tie of white lawn, edged with a binding 
of the same material as the waist. 
* 
Very pretty string holders are made 
of dolls dressed in crape paper. Usually 
only the doll’s head is used, a little bag 
being glued to this to hold the string, 
its opening at the bottom. When the 
bag is drawn up around the ball the end 
of the string is left hanging out. Some 
of these dolls are dressed all in one 
bright color of paper, their attire con¬ 
sisting of a skirt and cape, both gather¬ 
ed around the neck. The cape is edged 
with a full paper ruche, and the doll 
wears a similar ruche round her neck, 
and on her head a pointed clown’s cap, 
also edged with a ruche. More elabor¬ 
ate, and very pretty, is a Puritan doll 
dressed in black and white crape paper. 
Her skirt and cape are black, and she 
has a cap, apron and deep collar of 
white. These string dolls should always 
have a little loop at the back of the neck 
to hang them up by. 
* 
An absent-minded person who endea¬ 
vors to make conversation while think¬ 
ing of something else is often guilty of 
startling statements. A clergyman of 
this class who was making a pastoral 
call cannot understand why his parish¬ 
ioner looked so dazed, not to say indig¬ 
nant, during the progress of his re¬ 
marks. 
“Ah, my dear Mrs. Highmore,” he 
said, rambling on in his absent-minded 
way, “when your children grow to man¬ 
hood I trust-” 
“They are girls, doctor,” interrupted 
Mrs. Highmore, with painful distinct¬ 
ness. 
“I was about to say,” he resumed, 
promptly recovering himself, “that when 
your little girls grow to manhood, so to 
speak, as all girls do when the time 
comes, I trust they will grow, as it 
were, to noble specimens of manhood, 
who will be good husbands to them, and 
whom you can welcome into your family 
as worthy additions thereto.” 
The conversation drifted to the church 
social to be held shortly for the benefit 
of tne new organ fund, and presently 
the good doctor put on his gloves and 
took his leave. 
• 
We occasionally meet with an un¬ 
happy small boy whose mother believes 
that every active sport contains an ele¬ 
ment of danger, which may only be ob¬ 
viated by a system of total prohibition. 
He is not allowed to skate or swim or 
row, because he may be drowned; he is 
only allowed to drive with infinite pre¬ 
caution, and football or ordinary ath¬ 
letics are barred. 'The results of such 
training are usually unfortunate. In the 
old fairy tales, the doomed prince avoids 
every outward show of danger, to suc¬ 
cumb finally, amid apparent safety, to 
the fate awaiting him. In the same 
way, the boy may avoid the dangers his 
fond mother suspects in the strenuous 
life of athletics, to meet final disaster 
12TQJ6m 
from a loose stair rod or bit of torn car¬ 
pet. The worst thing about such bring¬ 
ing-up is the self-distrust it causes. A 
child impressed by the constant parental 
anxiety lest he be over-fatigued, or 
over-chilled, or injured, is likely to grow 
up fearful of pain, timid and predis¬ 
posed to nervous ills. A fearless out- 
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The Rural Patterns. 
The young girl’s waist shown is spe¬ 
cially adapted to slender growing fig¬ 
ures, and can be made suitable for 
school or evening wear, as it is cut high 
or low neck with plain or fancy sleeves. 
The lining is snugly fitted and can be 
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The full lower portion of the waist pro¬ 
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upper portions of the sleeves are slightly 
4024 FIVE GORED WALKING SKIRT 
22 TO 32 WAIST. 
full at the shoulders, but are cut in 
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The fullness at the back is laid in in¬ 
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