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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
August 30 
Woman and Home 
From Day to Day. 
Used to let his poor old mother go and 
carry in the wood, 
She was just a packhorse fer him, but he 
never understood; 
Never thought of bringin’ water from the 
spring down by the lane 
Or of helpin’ her to gether in the clo’s 
before the rain. 
Let her keep a-waitin’ on him, though het 
back was achin’ so— 
’Twasn’t ’cause he didn’t love her—he just 
didn’t think, you know. 
We never see a starfish without wonder¬ 
ing why any living creature should look 
so much like a problem in geometry. 
Mr. Starfish is not a popular guest along 
the coast, because of his fondness for 
dining on oysters on the half shell; he 
opens oyster with the fluency of a Bal¬ 
timore oyster shuclter, and is very de¬ 
structive to young beds. 
The Rural Patterns. 
Then he went away and married—left hc-r 
livin’ there alone— 
’Course his wife she didn’t want her—she 
had people of her own— 
And he carried in the kindlin’ and he built 
the fires, too, 
And, to tell the truth, I dunno what there 
was he didn’t do— 
He had to hustle now, I tell you! Got to 
thinkin’ too, at last 
That he might of been a little mite more 
thoughtful in the past. 
After while the weary mother put her 
burdens all away, 
And we went and heard the preacher 
praise the poor old soul one day, 
And I stood and looked down at her when 
they pushed the lid aside— 
Poor old hands! I didn’t wonder that her 
boy set there and cried 
Just as if he couldn’t bear it—just as if 
his heart’d break— 
He had kind of got to seein’ what she’d 
suffered fer his sake. 
There’s a lot of kinds of sinnin’ that the 
Good Book tells about— 
Sins concernin’ which a body needn’t ever 
be in doubt. 
But there s one sin that I reckon many a 
man who doesn’t think 
Will be held to strict account fer when he 
goes acrost the brink— 
Fer the wrong that’s done a person by 
another’s want of thought 
Hurts as much as though the injured was 
the victim of a plot! 
—Chicago Times-Herald. 
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Anyone fond of botanizing is often 
struck by the confusion of local names, 
which soon drives one to lengthy botani¬ 
cal names as the only means of sure 
identification. We never thought, how¬ 
ever, that the names of garden vege¬ 
tables were equally puzzling until a 
Massachusetts correspondent wrote of 
planting rareripes as an early garden 
crop. All the available wisdom at hand 
failed to solve the mystery, so we ap¬ 
plied for further information, to learn 
that the mysterious vegetables were 
onion sets! The tiny new onions form¬ 
ed are called rareripes. We had never 
heard the term so applied before, and 
wonder whether the usage is current in 
many localities. 
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Rubber bath sponges are a novel, but 
very practical toilet requisite. They are 
composed of vulcanized rubber, reddish 
brown in color, and have the cellular 
texture of the real sponge. The feeling 
against the skin is very pleasant, and 
they are said to wear better, and be 
more rea'dily cleansed than the marine 
product. They are the same shape as 
41 81 Boy’s Box Plaited Shirt 
Waist, 6 to 1 6 yrs. 
an oval cake of soap, and a medium size 
costs 30 to 50 cents. Commercial 
sponges are, however, so largely used 
in mechanical arts and trades that their 
toilet use forms a comparatively small 
part of their service. The display win¬ 
dow of a wholesale sponge dealer is 
often very attractive, making a show of 
marine oddities; lace-like fan coral and 
branching madre-pores, architectural 
looking starfish and prickly sea urchins. 
The boy’s waist figured is cut with 
fronts and back and is fitted by means 
of shoulder and under-arm seams. Both 
fronts and back are laid in box pleats. 
Over the shoulder seams are straps of 
the material stitched at each edge. The 
sleeves are in regulation shirt style with 
straight cuffs. The neck is finished with 
a neckband to which the turn-over collar 
is attached. The quantity of material 
required for the medium size is 3*4 
yards 27 inches wide or 2% yards 32 
inches wide. The pattern No. 4181 is 
cut in sizes for boys of 6, 8, 10, 12, 14 
and 16 years of age; price 10 cents. 
The little girl’s sailor suit consists of 
a body portion, a skirt seamed to its 
lower edge and a jacket. The body por¬ 
tion is plain, the front being smoothly 
covered with the material and trimmed 
at upper and lower edges to simulate a 
vest. At the neck is a standing collar. 
The skirt is laid in deep backward turn¬ 
ing pleats that meet at the center back, 
4183 Girl’s Sailor Suit, 
6 to 1 2 yrs. 
and closes with the waist at the back. 
The jacket is loose fitted. At its neck 
is a big sailor collar that is square at 
the back and forms points at the fronts. 
The sleeves are in coat style stitched 
with silk. To cut this suit for a girl 
eight years of age 5% yards of material 
27 inches wide, five yards 32 inches 
wide, 3Y 2 yards 44 inches wide or 2% 
yards 50 inches wide will be required. 
The pattern No. 4183 is cut in sizes for 
girls of 6, 8, 10 and 12 years of age; 
price 10 cents from this office. 
The girl’s frock, while suitable for 
thin materials, will also make a pretty 
style in woolen goods to be worn with a 
guimpe. The waist is made over a plain 
fitted lining that closes with it at the 
center back, and which is cut high and 
faced when the yoke is desired. The 
waist itself is gathered at upper and 
lower edges and arranged over the lin¬ 
ing, the shaped bertha finishing the 
neck. The short sleeves are puffed and 
held by bands, but the long sleeves are 
in bishop style. The skirt is simply 
straight and gathered, the lower edge 
being finished with a wide hem. To cut 
this frock for a girl eight years of age 
4% yards of material 27 inches wide, 3 y 2 
yards 32 inches wide or 2*4 yards 44 
inches wide will be required, with y 2 
yard of all-over embroidery for bertha, 
four yards of edging and % yard of in¬ 
sertion to trim as illustrated. The pat¬ 
tern No. 4179 is cut in sizes for girls of 
4, 6, 8, 10 and 12 years of age; price 10 
cents from this office. 
Rural Recipes. 
Huckleberry Pudding.—I ngredients: 
One pint of New Orleans molasses, a 
quart of huckleberries, a teaspoonful of 
baking soda, a teaspoonful each of pow¬ 
dered cinnamon, ginger and cloves and 
1 y 2 teacupful of flour. Put the molasses 
in a bowl, dissolve soda in a little water 
and stir in molasses; add spice, fruit 
4179 Girls Frock, 
4 to 12 years. 
and flour and pour the mixture in the 
pudding mould. Tie the lid on and set 
it in a pot of boiling water for three 
hours. 
Black Angel Cake.— (Repeated by re¬ 
quest.) One egg, half a cupful of sweet 
milk, half a cupful of sugar, one-third 
cake Baker’s unsweetened chocolate. 
Cook these ingredients till it thickens 
and let cool while making the cake part 
as follows: One cupful of sugar, half 
cupful butter creamed, two eggs beaten 
separately, half cupful sweet milk, two 
cupfuls flour, half teaspoonful soda in 
the milk (do not use any cream tartar), 
half teaspoonful vanilla. Mix the cakf 
thoroughly, then add the chocolate paste 
and beat well. Bake in two layers and 
put together with white icing. This is 
a delicious cake. 
Brown Betty.—Mix a cupful of sugar 
and a level teaspoonful of cinnamon. 
Prepare about a quart of sliced tart 
apples. Stir into a pint of soft bread 
crumbs about half a cupful of melted 
butter. Butter well a deep pudding dish, 
put in a layer of crumbs, then sliced 
apples and sprinkle with sugar, then an¬ 
other layer of crumbs, apples and sugar 
and continue until the materials are 
used with a thick layer of crumbs on the 
top. Bake about an hour in a moderate 
oven. If the oven browns on the bottom 
set in a pan of hot water or bake on the 
top grate of the oven, covering the pud¬ 
ding well to prevent to,o crisp an upper 
crust. Serve with hard sauce made as 
follows: Cream a third of a cupful of 
butter, add gradually a cupful of pow¬ 
dered sugar and when beaten to a cream 
add drop by drop to prevent separation, 
two tablespoonfuls of rich cream. Flavor 
with vanilla or lemon juice. 
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By This Mark You Know Them 
