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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
March 29 
[ Woman and Home \ 
From Day to Day 
A H TGIENiC HOME. 
My wife and 1 are trying hard 
To live on healthful diet; 
We read the food chart by the yard, 
And run our kitchen by it; 
We’ve banished from our bills of fare 
All that such guides condemn; 
True hygiene is all our care, 
As planned and taught by them. 
For breakfast coffee is tabooed, 
Hot cakes and eggs forbidden, 
And milk, since it is oft imbued 
With germs profuse, though hidden. 
Bread is unwholesome, so is steak; 
Submissive to our lot, 
Oatmeal and barley meal we take, 
And drink boiled water hot. 
For dinner soup will never do. 
And oysters typhoid nourish; 
Salads, entries and ices, too, 
Are mere dyspeptic flourish; 
Potatoes (by the last advice) 
Are poisonous, we’re told; 
We eat raw' meat, chopped fine with rice, 
And drink boiled water cold. 
For supper—some professors teach 
’Tis best to go without it, 
But since discretion’s left to each, 
We take our choice about it; 
On chicken, waffles, tea and cake 
We are forbid to feed; 
But gluten wafers, cocoa (weak) 
And prunes, are all w r e need. 
It grieves us much our friends to view 
So reckless In their diet; 
Our wholesome menu we pursue 
And beg of them to try it; 
But appetite’s ungodly sway 
Their nature so enthralls, 
We cannot get a guest to stay 
Within our healthful walls. 
Tit-Bits. 
• 
A SMALL boy who was writing an essay 
on parents makes the following wise re¬ 
marks: “Parents are things which boys 
have to look after them. Most girls also 
have parents. Parents consist of pas 
and mas. Pas talk a good deal about 
what they are going to do, but mostly 
it’s the mas that make you mind.” 
* 
Those Gibson waists, which, with 
their wide box pleats, give a broad ef¬ 
fect to the shoulders, are deceiving in 
one respect; they accentuate the meager 
proportions of a thin or angular figure, 
and in such case are not at all becom¬ 
ing. Gathered or pleated waists which 
allow fullness below the shoulders are 
very charitable to the angular woman, 
but the Gibson waist is less kindly in 
this respect, especially if drawn down 
too tightly, without blousing. In wash¬ 
ing materials the Gibson style is only 
made of the heavier goods, piqud, cham- 
bray, canvas, or mercerized cheviot. 
Some handsome plaid ginghams were 
seen of this style, trimmed only with a 
double row of round pearl buttons down 
the front. The fine white blouses shown 
so far are more elaborate than ever; 
they button down the back, the front 
being a mass of fine tucks and insertion. 
Many of them are made with elbow 
sleeves. 
* 
When a child carries out her reason¬ 
ing to a logical conclusion, she is likely 
to gain some unusual impressions. The 
New York Sun tells of a peaceful do¬ 
mestic scene where the teakettle sang 
softly on the fire and mother sat under 
the lamplight at the cosy round table 
reading. It was almost bedtime for 
Emily, who with elbows on knees sat 
quietly gazing at the pet canary asleep 
on his perch. “Mother,” said Emily 
softly, “angels have wings, haven’t 
they?” The mother looked up from her 
reading and answered smilingly, “Yes, 
dear.” “Do you think, mother, that 
when I die I will go to heaven and be 
an angel?” The mother was pleased 
that her child, whose only thoughts 
heretofore at bedtime had been upon 
the next day’s pleasure, should now be 
turning to serious things. “If you are 
good, you will, dear,” replied the moth¬ 
er. “Are you sure, mother?” “Yes, dear, 
I am sure.” “Then,” said Emily, in a 
satisfied tone, “I am glad, for I always 
wanted to know how it felt to put your 
head under your wing as Dicky does!” 
* 
A reader living in a district where 
fresh fish is not readily procured says 
4059 . Woman’s Wrapper, 
32 to 42 Bust. 
she would like to make more use of salt 
mackerel, if she could prepare it palat¬ 
ably, but it is usually hard and intensely 
salt There may be two reasons for 
this; the quality of the mackerel and 
the way it is cooked. A good grade of 
this fish should be plump, but not hard 
in flesh, and should lose its intense 
saltiness after proper soaking. Where 
sufficient use is made of the fish to war¬ 
rant the purchase, it is always prefer¬ 
able to buy mackerel by the kit, rather 
than in smaller quantities. The fish 
should be soaked for 12 hours or more, 
being placed in the vessel skin side up, 
and the water should be changed several 
times. After this soaking the fish is 
excellent broiled, and then served with 
butter, pepper and a dash of lemon juice. 
We prefer it, however, boiled and served 
with cream sauce. Simmer it for 15 or 
20 minutes, adding to the water one tea¬ 
spoonful of vinegar, one bay leaf, a slice 
of onion and a sprig of parsley. When 
tender, place on a hot dish and pour 
cream sauce over it. Creamed mackerel 
is freshened as above, then put in a 
shallow stewpan and simmered in milk. 
When tender, the fish is removed, the 
milk thickened with flour and butter, 
chopped parsley added, and this sauce 
is poured over the fish. 
The Rural Patterns. 
The wrapper shown is a very simple 
but satisfactory model. It is cut with a 
fitted back and loose front, that can be 
Arranged over the fitted lining or at¬ 
tached to the edge of the yoke as pre¬ 
ferred. The yoke is pointed and pro¬ 
vides a smooth fit across the shoulders 
without detracting from the comfort of 
the gown. The sleeves are in bishop 
style with deep cuffs pointed at the up¬ 
per edge, and at the neck is a standing 
collar. The skirt portion is cut to flare 
freely at the feet, and finished with a 
graduated circular flounce, seamed to 
the lower edge. To cut this wrapper for 
a woman of medium size, 11 yards of 
material 27 inches wide, 10 yards 32 
inches wide, or 8% yards 44 inches wide 
will be required. The pattern No. 4059 
is cut in sizes for a 32, 34, 36, 38, 40 and 
42-inch bust measure; price 10 cents. 
The seven-gored skirt possesses cer¬ 
tain advantages that are unknown to 
any other sort. It can be cut from nar¬ 
row material without"” piecing. Its 
many vertical lines give a slender^ effect 
to the figure and tend to reduce appar¬ 
ent size. The original is made of iron 
canvas in Napoleon blue and is trim¬ 
med with bias folds, headed with black 
and white braid, the seams stitched with 
silk, but all dress and skirt materials 
are appropriate. The skirt is cut in seven 
gores that are curved to fit the figure 
at the upper portion, and to produce 
the fashionable flare at the lower por¬ 
tion. The fullness at the back is laid 
in flat inverted pleats, and the front can 
4069 Seven-gored Flare Skirt. 
22 to 34 Waist. 
be shaped for the dip or round waist, as 
preferred. To cut this skirt in the me¬ 
dium size 8% yards of material 21 inches 
wide, 8% yards 27 inches wide, 6% 
yards 32 inches wide, or five yards 44 
inches wide will be required. The pat¬ 
tern No. 4069 is cut in sizes for a 22, 24, 
26, 28, 30, 32 and 34-inch waist mea¬ 
sure; price 10 cents from this office. 
She who blushes for doing what she 
ought will soon cease to blush for doing 
what she ought not.—Cato. 
Royal 
Baking Powder 
Saves Health 
and 
Saves Money. 
ROYAL BAKING POWDER CO., NEW YORK 
A Disabled Man i; 
Is certainly not In It, an4 
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disable, but this la where 
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It Conquers Pain 
Price, 25c. and Sle. 
SOLD BT ALL DBALBRS IN lfKDIOINB. 
A Model Dairy 
Every corner of the dairy can be neat 
and clean with little expense and almost 
no labor. 
Same of the milk pails, milk pans, 111 ilk- 
jars, milk bottles, butter tubs, butter 
jars. Everything that 
Banner Lye 
touches it cleans and makes safe from 
contamination of every sort. 
Soap Making 
One cun of Banner Lye 
(costing a few cents) will 
make ten pounds of good, 
pure, hard soap In ten 
minutes, without boiling, 
without waste, without 
large vessels and with al¬ 
most no trouble at all 
Easy di rections on every can 
Sold by grocers and 
druggists every¬ 
where. Jf your dealer 
doesn’t sell it, send us 
his name and address, 
and we will see that 
you get it. 
The Penn Chemical Works, 
Philadelphia, U. S A. 
Worth $1.25 
A SPECIAL OFFER 
. made to introduce our 
fgoods. Satisfaction guar- 
. w anteed, or money ref unded 
20 Pkts. Seeds 
1 Pkt. Washington Weeping Palm. . 
'lPkt. Alrssum, Little Gem, mixed. 
1 Pkt. Mary Semple Asters, 4 colors. 
1 Pkt. Rambler Roses, 3 colors, mixed. 
1 Pkt. Phlox Drum mood ii. 1 Pkt. Umbrella Plant 
VKt.Bonquct Chrysanthemum. 1 Pkt. Diamond Flower. 
1 Pkt. I ansies, 10 col's mixed. 1 Pkt. Giau t Verbena, mxd. 
Petunia Hybrid mixd. 
Japan Morning Glory. 
Poppy—New Shirley. 
Heliotrope mixed. 
Double Chinese Pink. 
California Sweet Peas. 
11 Lovely Butterfly Flower. 
“ Forget-me-not Victoria 
“ California Golden Bells. 
,l Carnation Marguerite. 
23 BULBS 
1 New Spotted Calla, 1 Beautiful Begonia, 1 Double 
Pearl Tuberose. « Butterfly and 2 Hybrid Gladiolus, 
8 Fine Mixed Oxalis, 2 Rainbow Lilies'. 2 Scarlet Free- 
■•a*, 8 Climbing Sweet Mignonette Vines, 2 Splendid 
New Canna Lilies—1 crimson, 1 golden. 
A Return Check Cood for 25 Cents 
on HrstS 1 . 00 order; also our New Floral Guide, 
pagr<*«. A ll th e above sent po stpaid foronly30c. 
If you sell two collections and send us GO eent»> 
with name and address of each purchaser, we will 
send you, FREE, another complete collection as 
your commission. Also onr 
$100 Cash Prize Offer. 
™ r . THE CONARD* JONES CO. . 
Roue and Flower Growers, Box * West Grove, Pa. (yf 
Write 
to-day 
Meat smoked in a few hours with 
KRAUSERS’ LIQUID EXTRACT OF SMOKE. 
Made from hickory wood. Gives line flavor. 
Cleanest, cheapest; free from insects. Send for 
circular. E. KRA18ER BliO., Milton. Pa. 
In a Glass 
Ca.se. 
The light fancy ru¬ 
ral mail box would 
last for a long time 
but rain and shine 
with frost and snow 
soon tell the story, and then 
its only claim to having been 
a good box, is that it died 
young. Our box is “pretty tough ” 
hencelong lived. As for beauly, why "hand¬ 
some is what handsome does.” Write for the 
why and wherefore. 
Bond Steel Post Co., Adrian, Mich. 
