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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
The Rural Patterns. 
Military coats with capes are extreme¬ 
ly fashionable, and a pretty style is 
shown herewith. The coat consists of 
the fronts, back, side backs and under¬ 
arm gores. Both fronts and back are 
laid in outward turning tucks which are 
stitched flat for their entire length, 
those of the back lapping over on to the 
side backs and concealing the seams. 
The cape is cut in two portions and is 
12 to 16 years. 
shaped to fit smoothly over the shoul¬ 
ders with extensions that lap over be¬ 
low that point. The full sleeves are 
gathered to form puffs above tho wrists 
and are held by the wide cuffs. The clos¬ 
ing is made in double breasted style. 
The quantity of material required for 
the medium size is 2% yards 44 inches 
wide or 2 y s yards 52 inches wide. The 
pattern No. 4600 is cut in sizes for girl.s 
of 12, 14 and 16 years of age; price 10 
cents from this office. 
The pretty morning gown shown con¬ 
sists of the fronts, back and under-arm 
gores and is finished at its lower edge 
with a gathered flounce. The fronts are 
simply full and plain but the back is 
gathered and drawn in at the waist line 
where it is held in place by the belt. 
The sleeves are wide below the elbows, 
narrower above, and are finished with 
563 Morning Gown, 32 to 40 bust- 
pointed cuffs. The cape is arranged over 
the neck which is finished with a simple 
turn-over collar. The quantity of ma¬ 
terial required for the medium size is 
12 yards 27 inches wide, 11 yards 32 
inches wide or seven yards 44 inches 
wide. The pattern No. 4553 is cut in 
sizes for a 32, 34, 36, 38 and 40-inch bust 
measure; price 10 cents from this office. 
While I live I trust I shall have my 
trees, my peaceful idyllic landscape, my 
free country life, at least half the year; 
and while I possess so much I shall own 
one hundred thousand shares in the 
Bank of Contentment.—Bayard Taylor. 
MOTHERS.—Be sure to use“Mrs.Wins- 
low’s Soothing Syrup” for your children 
while teething. It is the Best.— Adv. 
Economies in Household Gear. 
“What a pity you have no heavy stone 
ware to use every day, these china dishes 
are too nice for common. I never use 
my china, only for company,” remarked 
Mrs. Ward, while helping her friend Mrs. 
Brown with the dinner dishes when she 
was spending the day. “But you are so 
careful I suppose you never break one.” 
“Oh, yes, once in a while, but I have 
always used them every day; I never 
have any best for company,” replied 
Mrs. Brown. 
“I will tell you how I did when on the 
farm, and it will save you lots of steps 
and hard work. I had my table, stove 
and cupboard close together and had oil¬ 
cloth on the table, that saved washing 
tablecloths. When there are a lot of 
men and children to eat what use is 
there in tablecloths and nice dishes? The 
food is what they want; they don’t care 
how it looks if it only tastes good.” 
There is more truth than poetry in 
this. Mrs. Brown thought of the dirty 
streaks on the clean white cloth where 
hired help put their arms and elbows 
when eating and when not, of the tea 
and coffee stains, and of unpleasant per¬ 
sonal habits, but still an example is not 
always an educator. There are people 
who will not learn. If they were not ac¬ 
customed to clean white linen, pretty 
china and silver, food placed on the 
table neat and orderly, to be where it 
was so every day one would naturally 
think it would be an object lesson, 
making them glad to conform to the 
new order of things. When boys are 
brought up to behave properly at the 
table and have food and table neat and 
tasty, when they go out into the world 
and are brought in contact with an oil¬ 
cloth cover, heavy stone ware (perhaps 
cracked and broken), poorly cooked food 
placed hap-hazard they see the differ¬ 
ence, and don’t you suppose they sigh 
for the home table as Mother had it? 
Even if it is a little more work it is 
good seed sown which will bear fruit in 
the years to come, long after her weary 
hands are folded at rest. 
I have been in homes where beautiful 
old china, silver and cut glass were pack¬ 
ed away in cupboards, barrels and boxes, 
never used. If company came there was 
the “next best set” of white ware, and 
the old cracked, nicked and brown dishes 
were used every day as they had been 
for a score or more of years. Too much 
work to get the others out, and they 
might get broken. Who are they keep¬ 
ing them for—for others to quarrel over 
after they are gone? I remember a 
home where a tablecloth was never used 
except when company came, and how 
mortified the daughter was when anyone 
came in at meal time to see the old 
black or brown figured oilcloth on the 
table. The reason in this case was that 
the father held the purse strings very 
tightly, and it was very hard to get such 
things, and when got no wonder perhaps 
that they were guarded so carefully. 
Circumstances alter cases sometimes. 
We spent a few months among the Rock¬ 
ies in the Cripple Creek district of Colo¬ 
rado. In one of our trunks I packed 
some of our pretty china, and with good 
table linen our table looked very invit¬ 
ing. A young mining engineer put up 
a tent next to our house on the moun¬ 
tain, and we became quite friends. He 
was from Boston, and his mother came 
to spend a while with him. I asked them 
to tea one night and how they enjoyed it 
and reveled in the pretty dishes; “every¬ 
thing was so good.” In turn we were 
asked to their tent, the table was a 
rough box, but fine white linen covered 
it, but what fun we had over the dishes. 
Cake and crackers were served on tins; 
covers from pails and tin cans came very 
handy. The silver spoons, knives and 
forks that came “in mother’s trunk” 
seemed in mixed company, but we had a 
jolly time. At home these people lived 
in luxury. Another case comes to mind 
where the parlor was furnished very 
nicely, with Brussels carpet, lace cur¬ 
tains, easy chairs, pictures and lots of 
bric-a-brac; in fact, it was a sort of mu¬ 
seum and picture gallery. When com¬ 
pany came they were shown the won¬ 
ders of the room, then escorted out to 
the common sitting room to spend the 
rest of the time, a rag carpet, lounge 
covered with calico and stiff, uncomfort¬ 
able chairs, pine table and curtainless 
windows (there were blinds) made up 
the furnishings of the room. These peo¬ 
ple were well-to-do and had plenty, but 
it had become second nature to save and 
keep the best for some other time. The 
daughters that went out from that home 
do not live that way now. Perhaps the 
present generations go too much to the 
other extreme. Where is the happy 
middle ground? 
MBS. FREDERICK C. JOHNSON. 
Rural Recipes. 
There was a man in our town 
And he was wondrous wise; 
He shunned the doughnut as a plague 
And turned away from pies. 
He never ate sweet stuff at all. 
He took the greatest care 
To cut out seasoned things and live 
Upon the plainest fare. 
He fell downstairs one day and died— 
His <vas a grievous lot; 
Think of the good things that he might 
Have had as well as not. 
—Chicago Record-Herald. 
Baked Indian Tapioca.—Mix together 
one-third of a cupful of White House 
tapioca and one-fourth cupful of Indian 
meal, and Sprinkle the mixture into a 
quart of boiling milk. Stir and cook un¬ 
til the tapioca becomes transparent. Add 
a cupful of molasses, two tablespoonfuls 
of butter and half a teaspoonful of salt, 
and turn into a buttered baking dish. 
Pour over the top 1 V 2 cupful of cold 
milk, place in the oven without stirring 
and bake one hour. 
Scalloped Carrots.—Six small, fine¬ 
grained carrots, two small onions; boil 
in water until tender (about one hour). 
Do not scrape the carrots and the flavor 
will be retained. Do not cover them, 
then the color will be preserved. When 
(he onions are done remove them; when 
the carrots are tender peel and slice 
them thin. Put into a baking dish a lay¬ 
er of carrots and sprinkle with a little 
salt and pepper and bits of butter. Pro¬ 
ceed in this way until carrots are used 
up; moisten with one cupful of milk in¬ 
to which one beaten egg has been stirred 
and a good pinch of salt. Spread over 
the top a layer of bread crumbs dotted 
with butter and bake slowly until a deli¬ 
cate brown. 
RHEUMATISMS 
SHOULDER 
i 
Stop the Pain 
WITH AN 
Aitcock^ 
POROUS PLASTER 
This painful trouble can be relieved 
and cured by using an Allcock's 
Porous Plaster. Warm the plaster 
before applying—if not relieved by 
bedtime, place a hot water bag 
against the plaster on the shoulder. 
REMEMBER — These plasters are 
good for all pains and aches. They 
have been in use 55 years, have been 
imitated more than any article ever sold, 
and have made more cures than any 
other external remedy. Guaranteed not 
to contain belladonna, opium or any 
poison whatever. 
Never Accept a Substitute. 
The coffee habit is quickly over¬ 
come by those who let Grain-O 
take its place. If properly made 
it tastes like the best of coffee. No 
gjain coffee compares with it in 
flavor or healthfulness. 
TRY IT TO-DAY. 
At grocers everywhere; 15c. end 35c. per package. 
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