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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
March 12 
[ Woman and Home | 
From Day to Day. 
ONE’S OWN FOLKS. 
Smoothed and folded and laid away 
Garments too choice for every day; 
Lavender-scented and nicely pressed, 
In darkened drawer or massive chest; 
Garments too fine for the daily soil, 
Dust’s defilement and stain of toil; 
Broadcloth, ladies’ cloth, satin, mull, 
Fashioned and furbelowed, beautiful! 
Garments too fair for tired eyes 
To welcome at night with pleased surprise. 
When nothing especial care evokes, 
And there's nobody in but one’s own folks. 
Studied, molded and laid away 
Manners too fine for every day! 
The graceful bow and the gentle touch 
That cost so little, and mean so much; 
The smile that charms like the rare per¬ 
fume 
Of a rose-jar hid in a shadowy room; 
The song from the twilight nook apart 
That finds its way to a burdened heart; 
The yielding of self, and selfish ends, 
Reserved for the plaudits of transient 
friends; 
This—this—the cruel sneer provokes, 
“Anything goes with one’s own folks!’’ 
Straightened, folded and laid away 
Raiment we should wear every day! 
The rare, white vestments with broidered 
bands, 
For the daily “laying on of hands.” 
Friends, give heed. Let us keep not back, 
So brief, uncertain, our bivouac 
On the narrow plain ’twixt sea and sea. 
Love’s daily, hourly ministry. 
As we take from His hand our daily bread 
Let us see to it well that “our own” are 
fed. 
O for sunbeam and heart-beam and smile 
to coax 
The rose into blossom for one’s own folks! 
—Youth’s Companion. 
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Maple sugar cookies are now in sea¬ 
son. Cream together one cupful of 
4605 UliTs Box Plaited Suspender 
Costume, 6 to 12 years 
and wrapped around a wooden roller 
while damp, then beaten with sticks by 
either one or two women. This labor¬ 
ious operation is said to produce a beau¬ 
tiful gloss. As the people dress almost 
exclusively in white, laundry work is a 
considerable item in the Korean house¬ 
hold. 
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One good housekeeper tells us that 
when her lace curtains become badly 
worn, or if an unsightly rent appears 
she darns them with a hot iron. Select¬ 
ing a piece of net cut from some dis¬ 
carded curtain, she dips it in starch 
water, presses it flat over the hole, and 
when nearly dry irons it in place. Of 
course such a patch does not bear wash¬ 
ing, but it will stay in place until th? 
curtain comes down for laundering 
again, and is not conspicuous. 
The Rural Patterns. 
Many gored, much flared walking 
skirts are greatly in vogue. This one 
is adapted to all the season’s suitings 
but is shown in mercerized linen stitch¬ 
ed and held by pearl buttons. The gores 
are shaped to be narrow over the hips 
and to widen below the knees and those 
of the front, sides and back are lapped 
over on to the intervening ones and 
stitched to give the panel effect. On the 
panels are applied the trimming straps. 
The skirt is cut in nine gores and the 
fullness at the back is laid in inverted 
pleats that meet at the center and can 
either be stitched or pressed flat as pre¬ 
ferred. The upper edge can be finished 
with a belt or cut on dip outline and 
under-faced or bound as preferred. The 
quantity of material required for the 
medium size is seven yards 27 inches 
wide, four yards 44 inches wide or 3% 
yards 52 inches wide. The pattern No. 
4644 Nine Gored Walking Skir. 
with Panel Effect, 22 to 30 waist. 
sugar and one cupful of grated maple 4644 is cut in sizes for a 22, 24, 26, 28 
sugar with a cupful of butter; add two and 30-inch waist measure; price 10 
well-beaten eggs, two tablespoonfuls of cents from this office. 
water, and flour enough to roll out. Do ~- ■ - ■ - 
not make too stiff. Bake in a quick 
oven. 
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Suspender frocks make one of the 
latest novelties for little girls. This 
one is made with a box-pleated guimpe 
of white lawn, while the dress itself is 
of rose-colored cashmere, stitched with 
silk. The suspenders, which make the 
essential characteristic, are childish in 
effect and also serve to keep the skirt 
in place. The dress consists of the 
guimpe, skirt and suspenders. The 
guimpe is laid in box pleats that are 
stitched at each edge and is closed in¬ 
visibly beneath the one at center back. 
The sleeves are pleated above the el¬ 
bows, but soft and full below. The 
skirt is straight and laid in box pleats 
whose edges meet at the belt and flare 
apart slightly as they approach the 
lower edge. The suspenders are made 
in two sections each, the back ones cut 
in points that overlap the front, and are 
attached to the belt by means of but¬ 
tons. The quantity of material required 
for the medium size (10 years) is 4f£ 
yards 21 inches wide, 3% yards 27 
inches wide or 2% yards 44 inches wide, 
with 1% yard 36 inches wide for 
guimpe. The pattern No. 4605 is cut in 
sizes for girls of 6, 8, 10 and 12 years of 
age; price 10 cents from this office. 
The Providential Cultivator. 
“This will be my last year in the 
shop,” said Mr. Littlefield. Grandma 
Littlefield and Mrs. Littlefield smiled in¬ 
dulgently; May and Tom Littlefield 
laughed, and even the baby giggled at 
this ancient family joke. 
“Really, I mean it,” said Mr. Little¬ 
field earnestly, but with a twinkle in his 
eye. 
“Yes, you have meant it every year 
for 15 years, isn’t it?” said his wife. 
“Well, everything comes to an end at 
last, and we really must get out of the 
city. Think how nice it would be if we 
were living on a farm now. Here it is 
the first of March, and we would begin 
to think of the early work and see signs 
of Spring.” 
A wistful look came into Grandma 
Littlefield’s eyes. “I think as one gets 
older there comes a longing to get back 
to the soil,” she said. “The happiest 
time of my life was when I lived on a 
farm.” 
“I think of it more on the children’s 
account,” said Mrs. Littlefield. “I don’t 
imagine I should like it very well my¬ 
self, but I don’t think the city is any 
place to bring up children. See how 
white Baby looks. She can’t get outdoor 
air enough here.” 
“And it would be better for May, too,” 
remarked Tom. “She’d have something 
to occupy her mind besides dressing and 
beaus.” 
May flushed angrily. “I don’t know 
as I need the country any more than 
you do, Tom Littlefield. Anyway, I 
don’t loaf around on street corners and 
try to learn to smoke cigarettes on the 
sly.” 
“There, children, don’t quarrel,” said 
Mrs. Littlefield. Tom and May glared 
at each other ferociously, but said no 
more, and the rest of the meal was 
eaten in silence. 
It was two or three days later that 
upon coming into the dining-room after 
his day’s work was done Mr. Littlefield 
looked about him in surprise. “Why, 
what have you done here, Mary?” he 
said. “Where is the lounge?” 
“I put it in the hall for a change,” 
B'ETWEEN-seasons hats now fill the 
milliners’ windows, and anyone who 
thought she could buy Winter headgear 
as late as February has been wofully 
disappointed. Combinations of braid 
and muslin are much worn; plenty of 
straws are offered, but they are not yet 
worn at the North. Turbans and con¬ 
tinentals are favorite styles, supplant¬ 
ing the scoop brims of early Winter. 
Some trimmed sailors are shown, and 
it is said that this useful shape will see 
a revival of popularity. 
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Among all the varying claims brought 
out by the war in the East our especial 
sympathy is reserved for the Korean 
housekeepers. Their homes are not 
elaborate, but they have no labor- 
saving appliances of any kind. They 
are not obliged to make pie or crullers, 
but they have to hull their daily rice 
with a heavy wood or stone pestle, and 
although shirt waists are to them un¬ 
known, they have to wash their clothes 
in the streams and iron them with 
sticks. The clothes are ripped apart 
ROYAL 
Baking Powder 
Saves Health 
The use of Royal Baking Powder is 
essential to the healthfulness of the 
family food. 
Yeast ferments the food. 
Alum baking powders are injurious. 
Royal Baking Powder saves health. 
ROYAL BAKING POWDER CO., NEW YORK. 
THAT 
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There’s nothing that will give such 
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same time strengthen the side and 
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A pain in the right side , however, is 
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relieved. 
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