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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
October IS 
[ Woman and Home \ 
From Day to Day. 
A MATTER OF SELECTION. 
Said a vulgar little girl, who was sneering 
at another 
In accents that were very far from mild, 
“You ain't got no father,'you ain’t got no 
mother— 
You ain't nothin’ but a horrid 'dopted 
child!” 
"I’m quite as good as you,” came the 
answer from the other, 
“I was carefully selected from a lot; 
But only look at you—your father and 
your mother 
Had to keep you if they wanted to or 
not!” —Boston Globe. 
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Taui.e oilcloth makes a more desirable 
covering for school books than the 
silesia or calico ordinarily used; it does 
not catch dirt so readily, and can be 
sponged off when soiled. 
e 
I.v selecting a short walking skirt see 
that any trimming other than the stitch¬ 
ing around the bottom runs up and 
down. A short skirt t always makes the 
wearer look shorter, and this effect is 
modified somewhat when the straps or 
stitching forms long perpendicular lines. 
The favorite material for walking skirts 
and suits this Fall has been snowflake 
cloth, dark material having rough irreg¬ 
ular little flecks of white. Rough-sur¬ 
faced cloth of all kinds seems likely to 
be popular during the Winter. 
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Fine shoes, not in regular wear, 
should have a good-sized wad of cotton 
batting or soft rag stuffed down in the 
toe while they are stored away, to keep 
them in shape. Of course it is better 
still if those wooden forms known as 
boot trees are used, which can be trust¬ 
ed to prevent any wrinkling of foot¬ 
gear, but we are prone to look upon 
them as a superfluity. It will be noted, 
however, that the uppers of our shoes 
always begin to wear where wrinkled, 
so there is sound economy in prevent¬ 
ing such creases. 
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There are some pleas so moving that 
it would take a heart of stoue to resist 
them, says the Youth’s Companion. 
Squire Patterson is the only representa¬ 
tive of the law in a New England town, 
and is therefore the recipient of con¬ 
stant appeals for the administration of 
justice not only from his neighbors, but 
from many of the dwellers on outlying 
farms. One day a widow, known to him 
as a shiftless and complaining person, 
waylaid him in the postoflice. 
“See here, square,” she said, querul¬ 
ously, “I want you should say something 
to Nathan Boggs that’s got the farm 
next mine. He’s told it round that I 
don’t keep my hens at home, and that 
he’ll have the law on me if I don’t, on 
account of his corn. And I want you to 
put it plain to him how that he ought 
to have more patience, considering he’s 
got sons to help him and money laid by 
and what all; and everything I've got 
in this earthly world is one cow and 
those hens and six head o’ gal children 
that can’t throw a stone straight!” 
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has no eight-hour day. A 12-hour day 
would be a boon to most wives who in 
the care of the house and children are 
always “doing overtime.” There is 
nothing more pathetic than the sight— 
so often seen—of the hard-working, con¬ 
scientious mother who literally wears 
her life out in unheralded toil, thankless 
and not expecting thanks. In many 
families, however, the work is badly dis¬ 
tributed, to the injury of all concerned. 
The mother does too much, her daugh¬ 
ters too little. While the former short¬ 
ens her days in trying to let her children 
“have a good time,” the latter fail to 
realize the benefit for body and mind of 
being held to moderate work. Labor 
has a tonic effect. It. is good for the mus¬ 
cles, the morals and the mind. 
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In putting away Summer clothing 
plenty of room Is needed if wash dresses 
are to be kept in good order, ready to 
wear. Old-fashioned housekeepers used 
to put such garments away rough-dried, 
without starching, rightly believing that 
the fabric was better preserved thus, but 
nowadays we do not do this. Clothing 
is not expected to last as long as it did 
for older generations, and there is 
usually so much Spring work on hand 
that the prospect of starching and iron¬ 
ing a complete Summer wardrobe before 
it is ready to wear seems too much. The 
best place to store Summer frocks and 
shirt waists is a box fitted with trays 
so that they are not all crushed to¬ 
gether. Such a receptacle is readily 
made from a large dry goods box. It 
should have a hinged cover, and cleats 
nailed inside to support the trays, which 
are large shallow pasteboard boxes, such 
as readymade suits are packed in when 
sent out by the dry goods stores. Put 
in these trays crushing is avoided, and 
they are easily lifted out, so the entire 
box is not disturbed to get at some gar¬ 
ment in the bottom. Shirt-waist boxes 
are very useful, when made on the same 
principle, but whereas the storage box 
is as plain as you like—though it is 
worth while to paint the exterior and 
paste in a paper lining—the shirt-waist 
box can he made more ornamental. It 
is the right size to hold a waist without 
folding. The inside is lined with chintz, 
denim or cambric, pasted on; neat cleats 
are tacked inside to hold the trays, 
which are shallow paste-board boxes of 
the right size. These are strengthened 
The London Chronicle has been dis- 4224 Blouse Wai3t, 
fussing the important question “Should 32 to 40 bust. 
\\ omen Work, and tlie Baltimore Sun by having bands of the lining material, 
reminds us that women have been doing the width of their depth, pasted all 
the hard work since the world’s infancy, around, to prevent breaking at. the cor- 
A few play the role of idle butterflies, ners. The outside of the box is covered 
but the great majority of them toil un- with denim or cretonne, tacked on and 
ceasingly and with little reward. Among held in place if desired by bands of split 
savages the women do all the work, their bamboo or small moldings. The cre- 
lurds exerting themselves only in chase tonne-covered shirt-waist boxes seen in 
ann in war. Progress civilization bas the stores usually have very ornamen- 
consisted largely in getting man to do tal hinges of brass or bronze, put on 
something for a living. Even to-day over the cretonne. Such a box can be 
man’s work is only “from sun to sun, made at home, and would be a useful 
while woman’s work is never clone,” She Christmas gift. 
The Rural Patterns. 
The skirt and waist shown this week, 
if used together, would make a hand- 
seme suit for Fall or Winter, the same 
■velvet strappings being used on both. 
The waist alone of silk would be desir- 
ablo to use with separate skirts. The 
foundation lining fits with absolute 
smoothness and closes at the center 
front. On it are arranged the parts of 
the waist proper and on it is faced the 
yoke. Tho back is smooth and drawn 
down in gathers at the waist line, but 
iho fronts include tucks at tho shoulders 
4223 Seven Gored Flare Skirt, 
22 to 30 waist. 
which extend to yoke depth and are 
gathered at the waist line. The vest is 
arranged under the fronts and the clos¬ 
ing is effected invisibly at the left shoul¬ 
der and beneath the left front. The 
sleeves are in Hungarian style, snug at 
the upper portions but forming full 
puffs where they are gathered into the 
cuffs. The quantity of material required 
for the medium size is 3% yards 21 
inches wiue, 3% yards 27 inches wide, or 
1% yard 44 inches wide with 1*4 yard of 
all-over lace. The pattern No. 4224 is 
cut in sizes for a 32, 34, 36, 38 and 40- 
inch bust measure; price 10 cents. 
The skirt is cut in seven gores that 
are shaped to avoid all fullness at the 
belt yet to flare with freedom below the 
kuees. The back seam is lapped and 
closed with buttons and buttonholes, 
but it can be closed to placket depth and 
the closing made invisibly when pre¬ 
ferred. The upper edge can be finished 
with a belt or cut on dip outline and 
underfaced or bound. The quantity of 
material required for the medium size 
is 10 yards 21 inches wide, 8 % yards 27 
inches wide, 5% yards 44 inches wide or 
4Vi yards 32 inches wide. The pattern 
No. 4223 is cut in sizes for a 22, 24, 26, 
28 and 30-inch waist measure; price 10 
cents from this office. 
The proverb, “It is better to wear out 
than to rust out,” is true in form but 
false in spirit. The flowers do not wear 
out, but neither do they rust out. One 
reason why so many people are asking 
whether life is worth living is that we 
are teaching ourselves that mau’s chief 
end is to struggle and to crucify spon¬ 
taneity on a cross of drudgery.—Dr. 
Parkhurst. 
The sooner a 
bad lamp chim¬ 
ney breaks, the 
better. 
Now get Mac= 
beth’s. 
My name on every one. 
If you’ll send your address, I’ll send you 
the Index to Lamps and their Chimneys, to 
tell you what number to get for your lamp. 
Macbeth, Pittsburgh. 
RCHESTRA 
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