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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
April 5 
From Day to Day 
I wandered lonely as a cloud 
That floats on high o’er vales and hills, 
When all at once I saw a crowd, 
A host of golden daffodils; 
Beside the lake, beneath the trees, 
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze. 
The waves beside them danced, but they 
Outdid the sparkling waves in glee. 
A poet could not but be gay 
In such a jocund company. 
I gazed and gazed, but little thought 
What wealth the show to me had brought. 
For oft, when on my couch I lie 
In vacant or in pensive mood, 
They flash upon that Inward eye 
Which is the bliss of solitude; 
And then my heart with pleasure fills, 
And dances with the daffodils. 
—Wordsworth. 
• 
The coming Summer is to see a revival 
of the lace mitts which were popular 20 
years ago. This is a natural accompani¬ 
ment of the elbow sleeves that appear 
in so many of the Summer gowns. Some 
of the mitts are made of very handsome 
lace, either black or white. 
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There was only one passenger in the 
car as it slowly jingled along Chambers 
Street, and she was searching anxiously 
in the inmost recesses of a metal purse. 
Finally she disinterred a dime, which 
she handed to the conductor, remarking: 
“There—I was afraid I had nothing 
but pennies or a five-dollar bill, and I 
hate to give either for a five-cent fare.” 
“Thank you, lady,” said the conductor. 
“I suppose a lot o’ these temperance 
ladies don’t know that giving a car con¬ 
ductor pennies often drives him to drink. 
It does, though—we ain’t allowed to turn 
in pennies to the company, and we’ve 
got to get rid of ’em somewhere. About 
the only place we can change 'em and be 
welcome is a saloon—see? Then, of 
course, we’ve got to have a drink, and 
after a while a fellow begins to feel that 
the more pennies he takes in the better. 
Next thing he loses his job. Temper¬ 
ance people don’t live up to their prin¬ 
ciples when they give pennies to a car 
conductor. Transfer? Yes, lady,” and 
the conductor thoughtfully stopped the 
car for his passenger to alight on the 
muddiest spot within two blocks. 
• 
The New York Sun tells of a little city 
girl who all Winter long has yearned 
for a kitten. Mamma says, “A flat is no 
place for cats,” and papa agreed with 
this. Santa Claus also must have had 
the same view, for he never heeded the 
letters or the pleadings which floated up 
the chimney before Christmas. One day 
the child was out walking and found up¬ 
on the pavement a small branch of pussy 
willows. Thinking that cats and pussy 
willows grow on the same family tree, 
she brought the branch home. Then, 
with never a word to people who don’t 
love cats, the child put the branch in a 
tumbler of water. One of the grown-ups 
came and cruelly threw the branch into 
the garbage can. Poor little Sue came 
just in time to resurrect her catkins 
from their prosaic grave. Then, very 
stealthily, she tiptoed to the library, and, 
in the big blue jardiniere, where her 
mamma’s palm grows, the baby planted 
the little pussy willows. Each morning 
she goes cautiously to the blue jardiniere 
—feeling sure she will see two little 
furry gray ears appearing above the 
earth. Then she will, at last, have a 
kitten of her very own. The patient 
child is getting worried; two weeks have 
passed since she planted the kitten seed, 
and not a purr or a mew has she heard 
from the soft little pussy-willow plant. 
I always seek the good that is in peo¬ 
ple and leave the bad to Him who made 
mankind and knows how to round oif 
the corners.—The mother of Goethe. 
The Rural Patterns. 
The Eton jacket shown is a suitable 
model for a separate wrap, or as part of 
a suit. The back is seamless and fits 
with perfect smoothness. The fronts are 
pointed and extend slightly below the 
waist line. At the neck is a square col- 
32 to 42 bust. 
lar that adds greatly to the effect, but 
which can be omitted when a plain fin¬ 
ish is preferred, or it is desirable to re¬ 
duce either weight or warmth. The 
sleeves are in coat style, slightly flaring 
at the wrists. To cut this jacket in the 
medium size four yards of material 21 
inches wide, 3% yards 27 inches wide, 
1% yard 44 inches wide, or 1% yard 50 
inches wide will be required, with % 
yard less in any width when collar is 
omitted. The pattern No. 4071 is cut in 
sizes for a 32, 34, 36, 38, 40 and 42-inch 
bust measure; price 10 cents. 
The child’s frock shows wide and nar¬ 
row pleats. The body portion is made 
with a fitted lining that is omitted when 
washable fabrics are used. The front of 
the yoke is laid in fine tucks, then al¬ 
lowed to fall free and form the full front, 
but the back portion extends to the edge 
of the waist only. Both fronts and backs 
are laid in box pleats and the fronts are 
arranged to give a tapering effect at the 
same time that they open to reveal the 
V-shaped soft front. The sleeves are 
puffed at shoulders and at elbows, but 
tucked between, and all held by pointed 
cuffs at the wrists. The rounded neck 
is finished with an oddly-shaped bertha 
collar, and at the neck is a standing col¬ 
lar. The skirt is laid in box pleats that 
flare as they approach the lower edge, 
and is seamed to the waist, a belt or 
band of embroidery concealing the seam. 
To cut this dress for a child eight years 
of age 4*4 yards of material 27 inches 
wide, 4 y 8 yards 32 inches wide, or three 
yards 44 inches wide will be required. 
The pattern No. 4068, is cut in sizes for 
children of 4, 6, 8 and 10 years of age, 
price 10 cents from this office. 
Chestnuts on the Bill of Fare. 
The Pennsylvania friend who is grow¬ 
ing fine, large cultivated chestnuts and 
“finds them not much more palatable 
than acorns” opens up a matter of con¬ 
siderable interest to rural households. 
When these large cultivated chestnuts 
come to be produced in quantities suffi¬ 
cient for practical use, will our rural 
cooks welcome the newcomer to the 
larder and bestir themselves to send to 
the table something acceptable to the 
family palate? Every observing person 
knows what a dead weight of conserva¬ 
tism hedges in nearly every housekeeper 
of experience. Most of us like to cook 
and to eat only the sorts of food to 
which we are accustomed. It is cer¬ 
tainly easier to keep to the well-worn 
ruts. In one house it is always boiled 
potatoes, in another always wheat 
bread, yet there are six kinds of excel¬ 
lent bread and as many ways of serving 
potatoes. But the unaccustomed takes 
more time and thought, so Madame trots 
on in her well-worn round and shelters 
herself from thoughts of the untried un¬ 
der the retort: “Our folks won’t eat 
any of those newfangled dishes.” True, 
not a housekeeper on the face of the 
earth has less need than those of the 
United States to seek the novel and un¬ 
tried in the way of food supplies. Yet 
for all the wonderful variety and excel¬ 
lence of our vegetables and fruits many 
a family sits down to meat and potatoes 
twice a day with no zestful variety, no 
appetizing surprise, no thought of bal¬ 
anced rations. We are doubtless the 
best-fed nation of the globe, but why 
“only use chestnuts as a semi-luxury?” 
4 to 10 years. 
The weight of the matter rests with our 
cooks, though it must be admitted that 
the balance will turn on the conserva¬ 
tive notions of those same “folks” who 
sniff at the “newfangled.” 
A pocketful of hot roast chestnuts on 
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^O-THER fiOOfi 
Sparkill, Itockland Co., N. Y., October 29,1901. 
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Can You 
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and we will arrange for the time you 
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