1899 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
567 
Midsummer Shopping. 
Bargain Wash Goods. —Readymade 
Summer garments and washing goods 
are wonderfully reduced in price now, 
and one realizes the unwisdom of doing 
all the Summer buying at the beginning 
of the season. Wash goods of all classes 
are greatly reduced, and it will pay to 
buy such materials now to make up in 
the Winter. It is merely a question of 
being prepared to purchase in advance. 
Dimities, which were 35 cents a yard, 
are now reduced to 18 or 20 cents; ging¬ 
hams, zephyrs and lawns are equally 
cheap, and the expensive novelties are 
cut in half as to price. It is not wise, 
however, to buy startling novelties, even 
when they are reduced; they will look 
out of date next Summer, whereas pretty 
patterns in standard colors differ very 
little from year to year. Neither is it 
wise for the girl who may have but one 
best thin frock to buy a delicately-tinted 
organdie. By the time it is suitably 
made up over a colored lining, with lace, 
ribbon, etc., it will not be at all cheap, 
and it will not give the long service of 
a fine white material, which is always 
brand-new after a visit to the wash-tub. 
Readymade Garments. —Shirt waists 
are now greatly reduced; perhaps the 
best bargains are found among white 
ones, in pique, nainsook, lawn and a 
dozen other materials. Some of the 
nainsooks, which have an open mesh at 
intervals, are particularly pretty. Many 
are elaborately tucked, but we don’t ad¬ 
vise buyers to look for bargains in 
tucked waists. They have been worn to 
such excess that they are likely to go 
out, and may be old-fashioned by next 
year. The same may be said of all 
much-trimmed shirt waists; in buying 
bargains, stick to plain styles. 
Readymade washing skirts are offered 
in great variety. Exceedingly useful are 
those of blue denim, trimmed with 
straps of the same material, with white 
braid, or with white insertion; they 
have been sold, during July, from $1.50 
up. Duck, piqud and linen are still three 
favorite materials for these skirts. These 
materials, trimmed with bands of inser¬ 
tion, have now become extremely com¬ 
mon, and are being sold at very low 
prices. A woman who was searching for 
a skirt of plain black duck or piqu6 was 
rather surprised to find that, while a 
black or black-and-white skirt trimmed 
with white braid or insertion could be 
bought very cheaply, a plain black skirt 
strapped with the same material would 
cost double the money. Many of the 
trimmed skirts which have a tunic effect 
are very unbecoming to the figure. 
Shirt Waist and Cotton Skirt. —For 
all ordinary occasions during the Sum¬ 
mer, and especially for country wear, 
nothing is prettier or more becoming to 
any young woman than the shirt waist 
and skirt, but no other costume is more 
dependent for its appearance upon the 
way in which it is worn. One girl we 
know describes a certain class of femi¬ 
ninity as the sort of woman whose shirt 
waist always hikes up in the back. It 
is true that, sometimes, one is tempted 
to believe that the only way in which 
the waist may be kept down and the 
skirt kept up is by pinning both firmly 
to one’s backbone; still, it is possible to 
keep one’s garments in place, without 
proceeding to such, extremities. If a 
fancy tie and stock are worn with the 
shirt waist, the belt should be of ribbon; 
with a masculine collar and tie, a leather 
belt is correct, though it is quite permis¬ 
sible to wear a ribbon belt with the 
mannish neckgear. It is unwise to buy 
a fancy leather belt, unless prepared to 
change frequently, for these fancy styles 
are soon out of fashion. For cool, 
breezy days in Summer or Fall, a white 
shirt waist, worn with a navy blue skirt 
and red belt and necktie, is popular and 
pretty. During very warm weather, 
nothing is nicer than white alone, and 
white gowns, plain or elaborate, worn 
morning, noon and night, have never 
been more popular than during the pres¬ 
ent season. 
Sugarless Apple Jelly. 
The Oregon Experiment Station gives 
directions as follows for making a firm 
apple jelly without the use of sugar: 
Select thoroughly ripe apples, crush, 
and obtain the juice in the same manner 
as for making cider. Strain and place 
the juice in a granite kettle, and boil 
slowly, but. continuously, until the juice 
becomes thick enough to jell when cool. 
If the juice is boiled too hard, it will not 
jell. It should be boiled very slowly. 
Remove any scum that may arise on the 
top while boiling. To determine its jel¬ 
lying qualities, place a small quantity 
in a Shallow dish or saucer to cool. 
When finished cooking, fill the jelly 
glasses or molds with the liquor, and al¬ 
low it to stand until cold, when it should 
set firmly, making a stiff jelly without 
the use of sugar other than that con¬ 
tained in the fruit. To prevent the jelly 
from molding, melt a quantity of 
paraffin wax, and while hot, pour a 
quantity over the top of the jelly in each 
glass, making sure that, the paraffin ex¬ 
tends to and adheres to the sides of the 
glass. One gallon of apple juice will 
make eight glasses of fine, firm jelly. 
With the Procession. 
....Every duty that is bidden to wait 
comes back with seven fresh duties at 
its back.—Charles Kingsley. 
....An experiment recently made at the 
Binghamton, N. Y., Wire Works showed 
that a copper cent may be drawn out 
into 5,700 feet of wire. 
....Bavaria, with a population of 
5,818,500, spends $84,800,000 a year on 
beer—an allowance of about $73 worth 
for every male adult citizen. 
_The Amrita Bazar Patrika says, 
“Two Burmans, one of whom is a lad of 
17, were sentenced to six months and 
four months rigorous imprisonment each 
by the Myook of Hmawza for attempt¬ 
ing to kiss a young Burmese girl.”— 
Philadelphia Record. 
_It is related of General Nathan Bed¬ 
ford Forrest that, on one occasion, a lo¬ 
quacious widow asked him why his 
beard was still black while his hair was 
turning gray. General Forrest answered 
that he could give no explanation unless 
that he had used his brain a little more 
than his jaw. 
_“Never say of me that I am dead,” 
were, in effect, the last words of Charles 
Kingsley, and he expressed them in the 
epitaph he selected as his final message 
to the world: “Amavimus, amamus, 
amabimus”—we have loved, we do love, 
we shall love. A grand expression, not 
only of past condition and present con¬ 
dition, but of undying destiny. 
_The law recently passed by the Con¬ 
necticut Legislature for the protection 
of the Trailing arbutus is said to be the 
first measure ever passed in any State 
of the Union to foster the growth of a 
wild flower. The enactment of the law 
in question is said to have been largely 
due to a newspaper article calling atten¬ 
tion to the need of such a measure. 
_The belief shared by many that edu¬ 
cation unfits people for the common, 
practical everyday duties and necessi¬ 
ties of life is, perhaps, natural as the 
idea is prevalent that the so-called 
drudgery of life can be borne by the ig¬ 
norant. Consequently the educated per¬ 
son casts about for some sphere of 
action to which, according to the popu¬ 
lar idea, his education entitles him. Edu¬ 
cation alone can elevate commonplace 
positions, and when this is better under¬ 
stood, there will be less complaint of 
rural districts being deserted, and fewer 
housekeepers lamenting the scarcity of 
domestic help. The wonder is that 
farming and housekeeping, the two most 
important of all industries, should ever 
have been in the keeping of ignorant 
persons. 
-The number of Indians in this coun¬ 
try, instead of decreasing, is said to be 
slowly but surely growing larger The 
records now show that there are 250,000 
Indians in the western States alone, and 
several thousand more dwell in other 
parts of the country. A prominent 
Census Bureau official estimates that the 
next census will include upward of 
300,000 aborigines. 
....At the annual meeting of the 
trustees of Shakspeare’s birthplace at 
Stratford-on-Avon a committee reported 
that, during the year, over 24,000 per¬ 
sons had paid for admission to Shaks¬ 
peare’s house, representing 35 different 
nationalities, and over 10,000 had visited 
Ann Hathaway’s cottage at Shottery. 
The trustees had purchased a first folio 
of Shakspeare at a total cost of over 
£600. ' 
....A pair of iron stirrups were sold 
for $13,500 at the Forman sale in London. 
They were made for Matthias Corvinus, 
King of Hungary, and are partly plated 
with silver, pareel gilt and chased, each 
of the outer sides having an exquisite 
border of translucent cloisonne enamel 
on gold, 6 y 2 inches high and six inches 
wide. The work is Italian, of the end 
of the Fifteenth or the beginning of the 
Sixteenth century. 
_It has often been quoted that a 
grain of nicotine administered all at 
once would kill the strongest dog, and 
from this have been argued its terrible 
effects on the body of a human being. 
While this statement is undoubtedly 
true, it is somewhat misleading. In 
order to commit suicide by smoking, the 
r 
dog would have to consume 400 strong 
cigars, one right after the other. He 
would put himself out of the world much 
more easily by eating the boxes. 
_From Sunnyside, a new town just 
founded in Utah, all women are to be 
rigorously excluded. The scarcity of 
water from which the new town suffers 
is not, as might be supposed, the cause 
of this regulation. It is due to the fact 
that the managers of the town have not 
yet acquired clear titles to all the min¬ 
ing ground in the vicinity, and they fear 
that if the miners are allowed to bring 
their wives in complications might arise 
through taking up of claims by families. 
—Philadelphia Record. 
....One of the most unique as well as 
successful operations has just been car¬ 
ried out at Perugia, where an eminent 
professor operated successfully for a 
cataract upon a young lion. This inci¬ 
dent, according to a London paper, 
would have interested that famous ar¬ 
tist Rosa Bonheur, who made a particu¬ 
lar study of lions, and literally lived 
among them. A lioness actually died in 
her arms, and she was greatly affected 
when the animal in its last moments 
licked her hand with its rough tongue. 
....The desire of the moth for the star 
possesses most of us. There are multi¬ 
tudes of stars. And many of them are 
unattainable. And some of them, being 
attained, like us ill. In plain terms, the 
pursuit of joy, a pursuit in which hu¬ 
manity should by this time, surely, have 
become expert, is still almost always 
carried on in the wrong way. We go for 
stars, and, with our faces turned yearn¬ 
ingly heavenward, topple into ditches. 
The things contrived for our delight, 
the simpler, less elaborate means of con¬ 
tentment, have ceased to suffice for us. 
We have covered them up with the rub¬ 
bish heaps of convention. They are hid¬ 
den and forgotten, and when anybody 
discovers them to us we are filled with 
wonder, not unmixed with respectful 
awe.—London Outlook. 
MOTHERS.—Be sure to use “Mrs. Wins¬ 
low’s Soothing Syrup” for your children 
while Teething. It is the Beat.— Adv. 
....The booty taken by Quantrell and 
his famous raiders from Lawrence, Kan., 
in September, 1863, it is believed by a 
large number of people in Missouri, now 
lies buried in a great mound, 150 feet 
high, in Bates County, Missouri. From 
time to time searching parties have dug 
great holes in the mound in search of 
the plundered treasure, but none have 
succeeded in finding anything. Still an¬ 
other party has now gone to the spot to 
take up the search, its members claim¬ 
ing to have found the documentary evi¬ 
dence which will assist them.—Phila¬ 
delphia Ledger. 
_Fix this, then, first of all in your 
mind: You cannot impart to your child 
a religious life which you do not your¬ 
self possess. This is often a terrible hu¬ 
miliation; but there is no escape from 
it. If, for example, you do not find any 
real attraction in the Bible, you cannot 
make the Bible a sacred book to your 
child by perfunctory reading from it on 
stated occasions. If Christ is not a 
Divine Savior to you, you cannot inspire 
your child to find in Christ a Divine 
Savior by any specious pretence to an 
assumption of Christian experience and 
pardon.—The Outlook. 
/^ET Macbeth’s “pearl top” 
and “pearl glass” lamp- 
chimneys ; they are made of 
tough glass, tough against 
heat; they do not break in 
use ; they do from accident. 
They are clear, transparent, 
not misty. Look at your 
chimney. .How much of the 
light is lost in the fog ? 
Be willing to pay a little 
more. 
Our “Index” describe* all lamps and their 
proper chimneys. With it you can always order 
the right size and shape of chimney for any lamp. 
We mail it FREE to any one who writes for it. 
Address Macueth, Pittsburgh, Pa. 
B.&B. 
40,000 orders 
ought to come for this special offer, 
counting on The Rural New-Yorker 
reaching over 40,000 homes where choice 
goods are of interest. 
Here’s the offering : 
Priestly’s Black Dress Goods— 
40 to 42 inches wide— 50c. yard—all 
wool—fine quality—variety of neat de¬ 
signs— lowest prices ever known 
for genuine Priestly’s Black Goods, a 
make celebrated the world over. 
Most every woman wants at least one 
black gown or skirt — they’re always 
useful and dressy—and this opportunity 
to get fine goods for so little—50c. yard 
—makes it to every woman’s interest to 
investigate. 
Samples ready to send—you’ll see and 
say it’s exceptional value— the kind 
shrewd people take advantage of. 
Large, odd, lots of good, useful Wash 
Goods 5c. —another big lot lOc —all 
half, mostly less than half price. 
Choice summery Silks—clearing out— 
50 and 60c. kinds, 35c. —dollar kinds 
50c. Just the thing for now—and for 
early Fall waists. 
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Department C, 
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