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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
March 15 
[ Woman and Home \ 
From Day to- Day. 
TOO LATE. 
What silences we keep year after year 
With those who are most near to us and 
dear! 
We live beside each other day by day. 
And speak of myriad things, but seldom 
say 
The full, sweet word that lies just in our 
reach. 
Beneath the commonplace of common 
speech. 
Then out of sight and out of reach they 
go— 
Those close, familiar friends who loved us 
so; 
And sitting in the shadow they have left, 
Alone with loneliness, and sore bereft, 
We think with vain regret of some fond 
word 
That once we might have said, and they 
have heard. 
For weak and poor the love that we ex¬ 
pressed 
Now seems beside the sad, sweet unex¬ 
pressed, 
And slight the deeds we did to those un¬ 
done. 
And small the service spent, to treasure 
won. 
And undeserved the praise for word or deed 
That should have overflowed the simple 
need. 
This is the cruel fault of life—to be 
Full visioned only when the ministry 
Of death has been fulfilled, and in the 
place 
Of some dear presence is but empty space, 
What recollected services can then 
Give consolation for the “might have 
been?’’ 
—Nora Perry. 
Among accessories to go with wash 
blouses are stock collars and belts to 
match, made of white linen decorated 
with rows of machine stitching in color. 
They are not difficult to make if one is 
handy with needle and scissors, and are 
very fresh and pretty. 
* 
Some very handsome blouses are now 
made of silk moreen. It is, of course, a 
softer quality than that used for under¬ 
skirts, with a very silky finish, but oth¬ 
erwise looks precisely the same. Made 
after the Gibson pattern, with broad box 
pleats, such a blouse is very handsome. 
The moreen is used in all fashionable 
colors, either light or dark, and is espe¬ 
cially handsome in white. This material 
is also used to make strappings on 
jacket suits, instead of taffeta. Moreen 
straps on both jacket and skirt, stitched 
only at the edges, make a new trimming 
distinct from the silk strappings cov¬ 
ered with rows of stitching. 
• 
The ribbon manufacturers ought to 
erect a monument to the enterprising 
retailer who first thought of employing 
a milliner to tie bows free of chax-ge, 
for this plan has sold many a mile of 
ribbon. Nowadays every city store of 
any pretensions does this, and as the 
fashion of bows changes from year to 
year, involving a certain amount of 
technical knowledge as well as knack, 
it simplifies the use of ribbons very 
much. One of the most recent ideas is a 
multitudinous bow of narrow ribbon 
(No. 2) made of a mass of loops, each 
loop tied into a perky little inch-wide 
bow in the middle. The result is a sort 
of cataract of little bows, suggesting 
what the florists term a shower bouquet. 
These bows are used as neck dressings. 
• 
Among those who .lost their lives in 
the burning of the Park Avenue Hotel 
in New York City, early in the morning 
of Washington’s Birthday, was one wo¬ 
man whose death seems a personal loss 
to many who only knew of her by name. 
To those who had never heard of “the 
Tombs Angel” it seemed singular to read 
of city courts adjourning as a mark of 
respect to the memory of Mrs. Rebecca 
Salome Foster; she held no official posi¬ 
tion, was in the employ of no philan¬ 
thropic body, and asked no support. For 
many years Mrs. Foster had devoted 
all her time and the income from her 
ample estate to individual missionary 
effort among the erring, and unfortu¬ 
nate. Her attitude was always that of 
a loving mother to a wayward child. Her 
tenderest charity was given to sinning 
women, and more than one poor crea¬ 
ture under the shadow of a death sen¬ 
tence found in the “Tombs Angel” an 
only friend. The good she has done- • 
the severed families united, the erring 
ones reclaimed—can never be calculated. 
Truly her works live after her. 
* 
Miss Mary Kingsley, the explorer of 
western Africa, tells how she was once 
unanimously elected queen by a tribe of 
cannibals, the Fangwes. It was a case 
where the office sought the woman, 
rather than the reverse. Miss Kingsley 
was not favorably impressed by her sud¬ 
denly-acquired kingdom; she described 
it as “exceedingly difficult to move 
about in, owing to the large number of 
concealed mantraps,” and she was com- 
4040 SHIRTWAIST 
32 TO 42 BUST 
pelled to exercise some tact before she 
could continue on her journey. Miss 
Kingsley, who was a niece of the well- 
known author, the Rev. Charles Kings¬ 
ley, passed cheerfully through dangers 
that might daunt the bravest, escaping 
perils of wild beasts and wilder savages, 
pestilential swamps and roaring tor¬ 
rents, to die at last of fever while work¬ 
ing among sick and wounded soldiers 
at Cape Town. A hospital for tropical 
fevers is to be erected to her memory 
in England. 
The Rural Patterns. 
The novelty of the season is undoubt¬ 
edly the shirt waist with pleats that run 
to or over the shoulders. The example 
illustrated combines that feature with 
the new deep-pointed cuffs and stock, 
and is suited to all the season’s wait¬ 
ings, madras, Oxfords, piqud, chambrays, 
linen batistes, silks, light-weight flan¬ 
nels, albatross and the like. The fitted 
lining extends to the waist line only, 
but forms the foundation on which the 
waist is arranged. The fronts and back 
of the waist proper are laid in two 
pleats at each side, which meet at the 
shoulder seams. The fronts include the 
box pleat and are gathered at the belt 
or left free and adjusted to the figure 
as preferred, but the pleated back is 
smooth and without fullness. Orna¬ 
mental stitching, simulating pointed 
bands, is shown on the fronts. The 
sleeves are in shirt style, but with deep- 
pointed cuffs that lap over and are but- 
TRY GRAIN-0! TRY GRAIN-0! 
Ask your Grocer to-day to show you a package of 
GRAIN-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. M the price of coffee 
15c. and 26c. per package. Sold by all grocers 
toned at the outside. At the neck is a 
novel pointed stock that matches the 
cuffs. To cut this waist for a woman of 
medium size, four yards of material 21 
inches wide, 3% yards 27 inches wide, 
three yards 32 inches wide, or 2% yards 
44 inches wide will be required. The 
pattern No. 4040 is cut in sizes for a 32, 
34, 36, 38, 40 and 42-inch bust measure; 
price 10 cents from this office. 
A Trek to the South. 
Part VII. 
Well, we are at last in “Old Virginny,” 
and I am not one bit disappointed in it. 
It is a beautiful State. We intended 
passing through Harper’s Ferry on our 
way to Winchester, but found it would 
take us quite a little off the direct road, 
so after leaving Williamsburg we trav¬ 
eled west of the Ferry into Virginia and 
down to Winchester. Miss Brown’s 
home is quite a way back from the city, 
but we found it, and they were so glad 
to see me because I was “Frankie’s” 
sister. The house is a wonder; over a 
hundred years old, and some of the trees 
tlieir grandfather set out. There is a 
hill of apple trees that they call 
“Apple-pie Orchard,” that he planted. 
Her father was born in 1779. We went 
to the spring house and sat on the porch 
where great men have rested. This old 
place has seen the two wars. The offi¬ 
cers have camped there from both sides 
in the Revolution, and also the fight 
with the South. It is one of the most 
interesting spots we have been in. 
Speaking of the time Winchester was 
besieged, Miss Elisan said it was re¬ 
markable how—in spite of the strict 
watch—reports about the city would fil¬ 
ter through the lines to the Federal 
camp. The colored people somehow 
managed it, and to illustrate how fool¬ 
ish it is to undervalue the good will or 
enmity of the most humble or ignorant, 
she cited the circumstances connected 
with the taking of the city by our forces 
and gave me this copy of General Sheri¬ 
dan’s letter to Miss Wright, which she 
had copied from the original: 
“Headquarters Department of the Gulf, 
New Orleans, Jan. 7, 1867. 
“My Dear Miss Wright: You are prob¬ 
ably not aware of the great service you 
rendered the Union cause by the informa¬ 
tion you sent me by the colored man a 
few days before the battle of Opiquan on 
September 19, 1864. It was upon this infor¬ 
mation the battle was fought and probably 
won. The colored man gave the note rolled 
up in the tinfoil to the scout who awaited 
him at Richmond. The colored man had 
carried it in his mouth to that point and 
delivered it to the scout who brought it to 
me. By this note I became aware of the 
A M Setter 
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