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August if; 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
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l Woman and Home \ 
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From Day to Day. 
EVERY-DAY PHILOSOPHY. 
There’s a little splash of sunshine and a 
little spot of shade 
Always somewhere near; 
The wise bask in the sunshine, but the 
foolish chose the shade— 
The wise are gay and happy, on the fool¬ 
ish sorrow's laid. 
And the fault’s their own, I fear. 
For the little splash of sunshine and the 
little spot of shade 
Are here for joint consumption, for com¬ 
parison are made. 
We’re all meant to be happy-—not too fool¬ 
ish or too staid; 
And the right dose to be taken is some 
sunshine mixed with shade! 
—Stanley Dark, in Munsey’s Magazine. 
* 
A very good combination is made by 
stewing tomatoes and green corn to¬ 
gether, seasoned with a little minced 
onion, butter, pepper and salt. When 
small portions of corn and tomatoes are 
left over from a meal they may he put 
together and served in this way. 
* 
We are often struck by the improve- 
• ment in the appearance of some women 
when for the first time they put on 
mourning dress, or a uniform of some 
class, such as that of a trained nurse. 
They are dressed, for the first time, per¬ 
haps, in harmonious simplicity, and we 
feel an attractiveness which had before 
been smothered by excess of color or or¬ 
nament. One friend remarked to us re¬ 
cently that if a girl was not born with 
taste in dress she went through a good 
many heartburnings before she realized 
that her prime fault was lack of self- 
control in buying her clothes. When 
one buys a garment, or a trimming 
merely because it is pretty, without any 
consideration of the remainder of the 
wardrobe, the result is sure to be unsat¬ 
isfactory. A woman whose wardrobe is 
limited must confine herself to a very 
small range of color. If she gets a 
brown jacket suit, a pink waist and a 
blue hat she will always suggest a 
patchwork quilt or a bargain counter. 
If, on the other hand, she sticks to one 
color, with a bit of contrast if she so de¬ 
sires in the hat trimming, repeated in 
the neck dressing and perhaps the belt, 
she looks well dressed. Far better to 
stick to one becoming color, though it 
may seem monotonous, rather than to 
indulge in a series of chromatic experi¬ 
ments. 
* 
Pearson’s Magazine says that when it 
comes to making the most of limited 
facilities, woman is really the inventive 
sex. A man never thinks of a tooth¬ 
brush as anything but a toothbrush, but 
a woman knows its endless capabilities. 
If a window frame rattles at night, she 
wedges it with the toothbrush. If she 
is suddenly required to stir a dose of 
medicine in a glass, and a spoon is not 
at hand, she promptly uses the tooth¬ 
brush handle. She has even been known 
to use it to loosen the mold in a flower 
pot, and in extreme cases she can drive 
in tin tacks with the same useful arti¬ 
cle. Then there is the hairpin. The 
uses to which a woman can put a hair¬ 
pin are almost innumerable. Does a 
cork find its way to the bottom of a 
phial? A woman will immediately spear 
it with a hairpin and extract it. Does 
she wish to bore a small hole in a piece 
of wood? She will heat a hairpin and 
burn the hole out with neatness and 
precision. With a hairbrush, unless it 
happens to have a silver back, she feels 
able to drive in the largest nail, to pun¬ 
ish the most vigorous small boy, and to 
convert lump sugar into the finest of 
powdered sugar. She can make an ex¬ 
cellent hammer with the heel of her 
boot, and can convert a caseknife into 
an efficient screwdriver. If a woman 
knew the process of building a boat she 
might be cast ashore on an uninhabited 
island with nothing but a hairpin, a 
toothbrush, and an ordinary-sized boot, 
and within a month she would turn out 
a seaworthy boat in which she would 
escape to civilization. 
A 
For two years dressmakers have been 
advising the little postilions at the back 
of the waist, and they have finally ar¬ 
rived in full force. Usually they take 
the form of two little tabs varying in 
length from three to six inches, attached 
to the belt; they are from two to three 
inches wide, a little narrower where 
fastened to the belt than below. Some¬ 
times the ends are pointed, sometimes 
rounded, and sometimes they are left 
square. Often the narrower effect where 
joined to the belt is secured by a little 
pleat. Rows of machine stitching are 
usually put as a finish around the pos¬ 
tilions, or piping when this is used on 
other parts of the gown. Many of the 
Summer gowns of thin silk made with 
blouse waists are trimmed with straps 
of the same material edged with a pip¬ 
ing of contrasting color, and these usual¬ 
ly include postilion tabs. It is notice¬ 
able that almost all these Summer silks 
this year show a pattern of dots, usually 
moderate in size; the various sprays 
and floral patterns have fallen from 
favor. 
The Rural Patterns. 
The box-pleated blouse shown can be 
made very prettily in a variety of ma¬ 
terials. The foundation is a smoothly- 
fitted lining that closes at the center 
front. On it are arranged the plain 
back, the shield and the box pleated 
fronts. The back is smooth across the 
shoulders and drawn down in gathers 
at the waist line, but the fronts are 
gathered and droop slightly over the 
belt. The sleeves are box pleated from 
the shoulders to slightly below the el¬ 
bows, then fall in soft puffs and are 
gathered into deep cuffs. The closing is 
effected invisibly beneath the central 
pleat. To cut this waist in the medium 
size four yards of material 21 inches 
wide, 3 y 2 yards 27 inches wide, 3 V 2 
yards 32 inches wide or two yards 44 
inches wide will be required, with 1% 
yard of all-over lace for collar, shield 
and cuffs. The pattern No. 4156 is cut 
32 to 40 bust. 
in sizes for a 32, 34, 36, 38 and 40-inch 
bust measure; price 10 cents. 
A tasteful house jacket or matinee is 
often a great comfort. The pretty model 
shown is cut quite simply and can be re¬ 
lied upon to launder with success. The 
back is seamless and plain across the 
shoulders but is drawn down in gathers 
at the waist line. The fronts have a few 
tucks at each shoulder beneath the big 
collar, and lap over a center portion that 
is tucked at its upper edge to yoke 
depth, but falls full below, the closing 
being made invisibly at the left. The 
sleeves are slightly flowing and in elbow 
length. At the neck is the wide collar 
with scalloped edges. To cut this mati¬ 
nee in the medium size 4% yards of ma¬ 
terial 27 inches wide, four yards 32 
inches wide or 2% yards 44 inches wide 
will be required. The pattern No. 4142 
is cut in sizes for a 32, 34, 36, 38 and 40- 
inch bust measure; price 10 cents. 
Sunshine on the Farm. 
John R. Spear writes regarding a sea 
voyage, that “the one great cloud that 
shuts out the sunshine of life is fear.” 
But the one great cloud that shuts out 
the sunshine of life from farmers’ wives 
and daughters is work. They not only 
allow this cloud to come between them 
and the sunshine by day, but often al¬ 
low it to rise between them and blessed 
sleep at night. Now farmers’ wives and 
daughters are given “all the sunshine 
4142 Womans Matinee, 
32 to 40 bust. 
there is” and it is not always the fault 
of the farm, or the farmer himself, that 
they manage to get so little of both. 
You may say, there is always work to 
do on a farm, yet that is no reason why 
a woman should become a slave to it. A 
woman who thinks of nothing but her 
work can generally find plenty of it 
staring her in the face, but if she will 
turn to the sunshine she will find that 
a great help. Some things may require 
her to turn her face away for a time to¬ 
ward her kitchen, which like the Bibli¬ 
cal furnaces, is heated seven times hot¬ 
ter than the sunshine of Summer; but if 
you really learn to love and seek the 
sunshine you will be surprised at the 
amount of work which can be as well 
done out in the light, beneath a shady 
tree or veranda, as in a close kitchen; 
often saving a litter in the kitchen, 
which means so much more time saved 
for sunshine. Under this head we may 
include paring apples, preparing fruit 
foi canning or vegetables for cooking, 
sewing and mending, etc. You will of¬ 
ten notice that when the family spend 
a good share of their time out of doors 
there is a great saving of time usually 
spent in sweeping and dusting, and 
picking up generally. Some advocate a 
woman to neglect her housekeeping and 
go into the field in order to get her 
share of sunshine, but that is a pretty 
strong remedy where a woman has more 
work than she is at times able to do, 
and a family of children to care for. She 
might go into the field for recreation, 
but for active exercise like golfing and 
bicycle riding, where a woman has been 
on her feet for hours, running upstairs 
and down, sweeping, cooking, washing 
or ironing, she is not in crying need of 
exercise in order to develop her mus¬ 
cles, however much she may be in need 
of sunshine, rest, or fresh air. A ham¬ 
mock or easy chair out of doors or a 
drive is generally more beneficial. Don’t 
say the farmer’s wife does not have time 
for these, for she has. There may be a 
day now and then when the unexpected 
turns up, when she feels obliged to work 
indoors all day, but this is seldom neces¬ 
sary, and in a well-regulated farmhouse 
„ the women generally have the afternoon 
to themselves, aside from necessary sew¬ 
ing or mending which may be taken out 
in the sunshine with them, where the 
light is far better than in a darkened 
room; where the children may romp 
without wearing the carpets, and the 
young members amuse themselves with 
croquet, tennis, etc., after their morning 
tasks are completed. 
I fancy I hear some farmer’s wife who 
insists on remaining indoors say that 
the light makes her squint, the sun ruins 
her complexion, the dust gets in her 
hair, and she can accomplish more in¬ 
doors where she does not see so much 
to attract her attention. Such women 
are the farmers’ wives we read about, 
who are abused and isolated, and fill our 
insane asylums, and they are too famil¬ 
iar a type. But they are gradually being 
emancipated in spite of themselves. Such 
women must be labored with; tell them 
delicate complexions, like poor health 
are out of date; and that she needs to 
have her attention attracted from her 
work occasionally in order to do better 
work. This class of women complain of 
their isolation on the farm and their 
lack of opportunities to see the world, 
yet they are surrounded by the wonder¬ 
ful works of nature, though they are 
generally too much engrossed with their 
cares to notice them. This fact was par¬ 
ticularly noticeable during an eclipse of 
the sun, an event that was looked for¬ 
ward to by learned people of many 
lands. It was a sight which wise pro¬ 
fessors traveled miles to see, and the 
educated world stopped the wheels of 
everyday life to observe; a sight not 
seen for 30 years, and yet many women 
situated in so-called isolated farms, 
where conditions were perfect for ob¬ 
servation, were far more interested in 
getting their ordinary weekly wash out 
on the line at an early hour, than in ob¬ 
serving this great wonder of nature. No 
wonder that such women fail to appre¬ 
ciate such an ordinary blessing as sun¬ 
shine, preferring to sink, or drown 
themselves beneath their own weight of 
cares and worries, instead of stretching 
out their hands anu hearts to the sun¬ 
shine. ALICE E. PINNEY. 
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