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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
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From Day to Day.| 
THE DILEMMA OF THE SEASONS. 
When it’s January weather, an’ the river as 
it flows 
Keeps on a gittin’ drowsy till it finally is 
froze, 
Oh, it’s fine to snuggle close to where the 
fire is burnin’ bright, 
Or else to pull the covers up around your 
chin at night. 
An’ the chores you might be doin’ sort o’ fill 
your mind with pain, 
An’ so you put ’em off until it’s Summer 
time again. 
An' when the June time greets us an’ the 
roses blush an’ try 
To hide from truant breezes as they come 
a-whisperin’ by, 
When everything you notice seems to tempt 
you out to play 
An’ it’s time to go a-fishin’ every minute 
of the day— 
Well, there’s no excuse fur toilin’ when the 
skies are warm an’ blue, 
So you guess you’ll wait till Winter, when 
there’s nothin’ else to do. 
—Washington Post. 
* 
We heard recently of a small girl 
who was having a very hard time cut¬ 
ting her last teeth. She realized, like 
many an older sufferer, that this is a 
hard world, and that she was a very 
small item in it, so she sat on the floor 
and wept. On being asked what was 
the matter she explained: “God made 
me, but He didn’t finish me. He left me 
to cut my toofs all by myself!” 
* 
Many farm housewives pack away 
sausage for Summer use by frying it in 
cakes or slices, putting in jars, and cov¬ 
ering it with melted lard before sealing 
it. Has anyone tried the experiment 
of putting the uncooked sausage in fruit 
jars, standing the jars in water for a 
long cooking, like canned fruit, and 
then sealing promptly? We have been 
somewhat surprised, during the last 
year or two, to find how many rural 
housekeepers put up canned meat suc¬ 
cessfully. 
* 
Tiie careless use of gasoline as a 
cleansing agent is responsible for many 
painful accidents. In spite of these, wo¬ 
men still persist in cleaning their gloves 
by lamplight, and similar dangerouc 
practices. In a recent case of this char¬ 
acter the victim stood by a lighted gas 
jet, and scrubbed a pair of gloves while 
they were on her hands with a brush 
dipped in gasoline. The vapor ignited, 
and she was shockingly burned, setting 
the furniture in her room on fire before 
help reached her. Too much care can¬ 
not be exercised in using dangerous 
combustibles and explosives. 
* 
Among the Spring wash fabrics, silk 
ginghams are handsomer than ever, 
beautiful pieces with broche stripes 
costing about 70 cents a yard. Trou- 
ville shirtings are another line of silk- 
mixed wash goods; they have hem¬ 
stitched stripes, and cost $1.25 a yard. 
Hudson cloth is a mixture from Austria; 
it has slightly open-work lace stripes of 
white on a delicate ground, Gobelin 
blue, Nile green, coral pink, maize or 
gray. Linen gingham is the fabric form¬ 
erly called German gingham; it is fine 
and smooth, but stands hard wear. All 
the fine silk-mixed wash goods need 
very careful laundering to keep their 
freshness; many of them soon fade in 
the washtub. It is consoling to the wo¬ 
man who feels it sinful to give above 
25 cents a yard for gingham to find that 
she has a wide range of selection, 
among charming colors that will take a 
bath without losing their complexion. 
Sateen is still with us; it is not a fash¬ 
ionable fabric, but many elderly women 
like it for Summei wear, so it is usually 
Been in black and white, purple and 
white, or some similar combination. 
The decline in the vogue of sateen is 
doubtless due to the cheapness and 
beauty of Summer silks, and the good 
standing given to other cottons by the 
blouses and blouse suits so freely worn. 
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A good many parents suffer acutely 
from the “examples” brought home by 
their children, because knowledge of 
these afflicting sums evaporates in the 
course of time, and we find them much 
harder to explain in adult years than 
when we were back in the sixth grade. 
A teacher in a Texas public school re- 
3981 Misses Russian Wa st, 
1 2 to 16 yrs. 
cently received this letter from a parent 
who had been struggling with this sub¬ 
ject: 
Sir: Will you in the future give my son 
easier some to do at nites? This is what 
he’s brought hoam two or three nites back: 
“If fore gallins of bere will fill thirty to 
pint bottles, how many pints and half bot¬ 
tles will nine gallins of bere fill?’’ Well, 
we tried and could make nothin’ of it all, 
and my boy cried and laughed and sed he 
didn’t dare go back in the mornin without 
doin it. So I had to go and buy a nine gal- 
lin keg of bere, which I could ill afford to 
do, and then he went and borrowed a lot 
of wine and brandy bottle. We fill them, 
and my boy put the numbers down for an 
answere. I don’t know whether it is right 
or not, as we spilt some while doin it. P. 
S.—Please let the next some be in water, 
as I am not able to buy more bere. 
* * 
Uganda, East Africa, is now traversed 
by a railway which surely offers an ex¬ 
traordinary outlook to the traveler. The 
Commissioner in charge of the district, 
in his report to the home government, 
says: 
On the platforms naked savages peer and 
grin with good-humored curiosity. Their 
nudity is rendered more conspicuous by the 
fact that they wear short cloaks hanging 
down their backs, and carry elaborate or¬ 
naments, often including old jam pots, in 
the slits cut in their ears. Near the sta¬ 
tions the ostrich and the barndoor fowl 
almost intermingle. The obstinate rhi¬ 
noceros, who assimilates new ideas more 
slowly than other beasts, sometimes dis¬ 
putes the passage of the train in a narrow 
cutting and derails it, though he perishes in 
the attempt. A troop of more intelligent 
elephants occasionally occupy a station, and 
in their curiosity ravage the booking of¬ 
fice and take tickets w'hich cannot be ac¬ 
counted for afterwards. 
The same official tells this missionary 
story: 
On the occasion of the funeral of a bishop, 
the king of the country was bidden to the 
service. He came, half dead with fear. 
His presence could be desired for only one 
reason—he was to be buried alive with the 
bishop in order that the latter might pre¬ 
sent him as a convert in the celestial re¬ 
gions. The ceremony seemed so natural, so 
appropriate, that his own officials could not 
even formulate a protest. When, at the 
MOTHERS.—Be sure to use “Mrs. Wins¬ 
lows’ Soothing Syrup” for your children 
while Teething. It is the Best.— Adv. 
conclusion of the service, he still found 
himself outside the grave, he went away 
very glad indeed, but teeling that the ways 
of Europeans were absolutely incompre¬ 
hensible. _ 
The Rural Patterns. 
Russian styles are always becoming 
to young girls and are much in vogue. 
The pretty waist illustrated is an ad¬ 
mirable example. The original is made 
of albatross in pastel blue, trimmed 
with Persian bands and makes part of 
a costume, but all soft silks and wool 
materials are appropriate. The founda¬ 
tion lining is carefully fitted and closes 
at the center front. The back of the 
waist is plain across the shoulders and 
drawn down in gathers at the waist line. 
The right front extends over the left 
and both are arranged in gathers at the 
waist line, but quiie smooth at the upper 
portion. The sleeves are in bishop style 
with pointed cuffs, and the neck is fin¬ 
ished with a collar band to which the 
plain high stock is attached. To cut 
this waist for a girl of it years of age 
‘ 6 V 4 , yards of material 21 inches wide, 
2% yards 27 inches wide, or 1% yard 44 
inches wide will be required. The pat¬ 
tern No. 3981 is cut in sizes for misses 
12, 14 and 16 years of age; price 10 
cents from this office. 
The bolero waist shown is made of 
plisse chiffon in cream white with the 
bolero of white panne and the cuffs and 
trimming of Irish crochet lace; but any 
number of combinations may be sug¬ 
gested. The many soft silks and wools 
in the markets are appropriate for the 
waist, while the bolero can be of the 
same or material to match the silk. The 
foundation or fitted lining closes at the 
center front, but the waist can be made 
to close at the left shoulder and under¬ 
arm seam, or invisibly at the center as 
preferred. To cut this waist in the me¬ 
dium size 4% yards 21 inches wide, 4 X A 
yards 27 inches wide or 2% yards 44 
inches wide will be required, with three- 
fourths yard of all-over lace 18 inches 
wide and four yards of applique to trim 
as illustrated. The pattern No. 4019 is 
cut in sizes for a 32, 34, 36, 38 and 40- 
inch bust measure; price 10 cents. 
The accumulation of money in a sav¬ 
ings bank, which by small deposits 
makes one rich after a time, is repeated 
in the process of the mind. Habits of 
intellectual thrift will soon be formed, 
which will make one quick to detect the 
value of a flying moment and anxious to 
seize and save it for deposit in the bank 
of knowledge. If one continues to add 
items to this accumulating prinicpal 
and interest they will soon make him 
rich in a treasure which surpasses all 
other riches in its power to give con¬ 
stant delight.—F. T. Keeney. 
TRY GKAIN-O! TRY GRAIN-0! 
Ask your Grocer to-day to show you a package of 
GKAIN-O, the new food drink that takes the place 
of coffee. The children may drink it without injury 
as well as the adult. All who try it, like it. GRAIN-O 
has that rich seal brown of Mocha or Java, but it Is 
made from pure grains, and the most delicate stomach 
receives It without distress. 14 the price of coffee 
15c. and 2oc. per package. Sold by all grocers 
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WOMAN AND CHILD 
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Rheumatism 
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