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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
The Rural Patterns. 
A fashionable form of the shirred skirt 
is shown in pattern No. 4799. The skirt 
is circular, cut in one piece, and is ar¬ 
ranged over a foundation yoke to which 
the shirrings are attached. The quantity 
uf material required for the medium size 
is 9 1/2 yards 21 inches wide, 7yards 
27 inches wide or 4j/2 yards 44 inches 
wide, with 5J4 yards of applique to trim 
as illustrated. 'T he pattern 4799 is cut in 
sizes for a 22, 24, 28 and 30 inch waist 
measure. Price 10 cents. 
A simple waist, well suited to slight fig¬ 
ures, is shown in No. 4791. 1 he waist 
consists of the lining, which is optional, 
fronts and hack, and is closed invisibly 
beneath the box pleat at the center front, 
'file back is plain, drawn down in gathers 
at the waist line, but the fronts are gath¬ 
ered at shoulder and neck edges as well 
as at the waist line. The sleeves are made 
in one piece each, gathered into straight 
cuffs, and the trimming straps are extend¬ 
ed over them to give the fashionable 
drooping line. The quantity of material re¬ 
quired for the medium size is V/ 2 yards 21 
inches wide, yards 27 inches wide or 
2,'4 yards 44 inches wide, with 2 l / 2 yards 
of banding. The pattern 4791 is cut in 
sizes for a 30, 32, 34, 36, 38 and 40 inch 
bust measure. Price 10 cents. 
A very pretty style of applying trimming 
is shown in the pattern No. 4801. The 
waist consists of the fitted foundation, 
4799 Shirred Walking Skirt, 
22 to 30 waist. 
fronts and back. The back is plain and 
gathered at the waist line, but the fronts 
are tucked from the shoulders for a por¬ 
tion of their length and finished at the 
front with a regulation box pleat. The 
stole collar is arranged over the waist on 
indicated lines, and can he made from a 
variety of trimmings. All-over edged with 
banding is always attractive and the ma¬ 
terial itself trimmed is often better than 
anything more elaborate. The quantity of 
material required for the medium size is 
4 yards 21 inches wide, 3% yards 27 inches 
wide or 2j4 yards 44 inches wide, with 1J4 
yards of embroidered insertion and 3J4 
yards of lace to trim as illustrated. 1 he 
pattern 4801 is cut in sizes for a 32, 34, 36, 
:is and 40 inch bust measure. Price 10 
cents. 
Charity Sweetheart’s Letters. 
You would really think I was to blame 
for the weather. It has been raining most 
of the harvest, and Brother is glum all the 
time. He isn’t cross, but just gloomy, and 
such a spirit soon makes itself felt in a 
home. 1 say to him that the corn is good 
this year. lie looks at me with a frown, 
and says: ‘‘It’s full of smut,” as if it was 
my fault. The other day I admired the 
second growth of clover, and he said with 
a growl that it was flowering out short, 
and useless, and he would rather have 
Timothy. It seems to me that he is very 
hard to please, banners never seem to 
he willing to make their business one of 
profit and loss; they want it to be all 
profit, with no offsetf O this money,* what 
slaves it does make of us! How we bow 
and cringe to the golden calf, worse than 
those poor Israelites did, and I am not a 
hit better than the average, for I am often 
envious of those who do not have to worry 
about how they will get enough money to 
buy the little comforts that go to make 
life liveable—1 was going to say bearable. 
Of all the dependent positions, I think 
that of Auntie without pocket money is 
the most to be pitied. You know that the 
needs of the household are many. “ I he 
hoys want boots and Sunday suits,” and 
the running expenses must he paid. When 
Brother gets behind hand and tells Minty 
he can’t have any extravagance, he’s quite 
likely to buy her a new dress after the lit¬ 
tle domestic breeze. But Sis” is not sup¬ 
posed to want anything till she asks for it, 
and would rather go without than do so. 
Sometimes at night, when I cannot 
sleep, the thought comes over me that if 1 
worked in some one’s else kitchen, it would 
he different, for 1 could have regular hours 
and good pay. Rut Brother objects to my 
going out “to service,” as lie calls it. 
“What will people think if I let you do 
that?” he asks, and public opinion seems 
to be the principal thing, as it is the bug¬ 
bear with so many of us, on every sub¬ 
ject. But, whatever they think, it does 
not mend my boots or supply me with a 
new jacket, nor does it keep Brother from 
complaining that he is poor, and vvonders 
where the money goes to if I ask, in des¬ 
peration, for a trifle for simple necessities. 
Why, I sometimes haven’t enough to buy a 
postage stamp, and always have to apply 
to him for it. That is the reason I made 
up my mind to gather wild raspberries one 
Summer, and made nearly $10. But Bro¬ 
ther owed Jabez Lawrence some money, 
and couldn’t pay it, so I let him have a 
loan of that, and think he must have for¬ 
gotten all about it. At any rate, he and 
Minty think my time is their time, when 
they “supnort” me, as men delight to call 
it when they provide food for their 
women folk, who work hard for it, and 
are often “nurse, seamstress, housemaid, 
cook,” all in one frail body. 
I am not frail at all ,and blessed with an 
ordinary share of health, nor do I think 
tnat 1 am given to looking at the dark side 
of life. But 1 do sometimes wonder what 
will become of me when I grow old and 
unable to attend to so much work. Shall 
I be “Charity”—in more than name, and 
have to eat bread that I cannot earn? It 
is this thought that goes through life like 
a haunting ghost beside many a girl who 
has preferred to remain unmarried, and 
whose future is not assured. Present 
needs and humiliations are bad enough to 
bear, but the terrible thought that there 
is no provision for the future, embitters 
the days and blots the sunshine, even amid 
pleasant duties. Taking “no thought for 
the morrow” is a mandate easy to comply 
with, and plenty of shiftless people fol¬ 
low it; but it does not answer to take the 
sentence literally, and one needs a great 
deal of faith to trust the future. I know 
from many a heart-rending confidence, 
that this “ghost” is responsible for many 
a marriage, made for the sake of a home. 
CHARITY SWEETHEART. 
Something Good to Eat. 
We have been berrying, my cousin and 
myself, with our mothers and an aunt. It 
was a long, hot walk, and the pails grew 
heavier every step. We came to a cool 
spring bubbling from a rocky hole in the 
hillside. We drank long and eagerly, and 
rested there a bit. Bertha lay with her¬ 
on to get boiling hot, and once more she 
brings out the pie-board and a very sharp 
knife. She carefully rolls up her dried 
dough as you would a jelly roll. She 
pares off narrow, very narrow, slices, and 
shakes them through her fingers to un 
roll them. Soon they are bubbling merrily 
in the pot for 10 minutes. A big piece of 
butter is melting in a spider, and when it 
is very hot she sifts in two big cupfuls of 
bread crumbs to brown. As we turned in 
at the gate, I could smell those crumbs, 
and my mouth watered. An old blue 
platter was heaped high with the 
“noodles,” carefully drained, only wait¬ 
ing their crown of brown crumbs and a 
little of the melted butter. A big glass 
dish of crisp lettuce, all wet and curly, 
waited to be dressed. I watched hungrily 
while Grandma poured just as much vine¬ 
gar into the spider as she had butter and 
crumbs left. This mixture she poured 
over the lettuce and then tossed it about 
with two forks. With mealy potatoes 
bursting their jackets and a slice of juicy 
steak, this was a dinner fit for a king. 
My grandmother came from Germany, 
and she makes some very toothsome things 
which I always call German dishes. Here 
is one: 
Cucumbers and Cream.—One big or two 
medium-sized cucumbers peeled thick, and 
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4791 Blouse or Shirt Waist, 
30 to 40 bust. 
head in my lap, squinting up through the 
quivering leaves at the bright blue sky 
"Oh, dear,” she sighed, “I’d like some¬ 
thing good—something good to eat! 
Wouldn’t you like a soda?” 1 assented, and 
then suddenly thought of something quite 
as delectable. 
“Grandma is going to have some noodles 
and German lettuce for dinner,” T said. I 
1 thought of her heating three big brown 
eggs to a frothy whole; then she adds a 
pinch of salt, and stirs in enough_ flout 
to make a very stiff dry ball. 1 lie.kitchen 
is dark and cool. She flours the pie-board 
and divides the yellow ball into three 
parts. These she rolls and rolls a long 
time, until each is as thin as paper, and 
vou can almost see through them. Then 
she opens the door into her sweet-smell¬ 
ing, airy bed-room, with its snowy bed¬ 
cover. She spreads newspapers on tilt 
bed, and lays a big yellow sheet on each. 
The warm, fresh air blows through the 
white curtains and dries the dough. Then, 
when the fire is started for dinner, Grand¬ 
ma puts an iron kettle half full of watei 
4801 Blouse Waist, 32 to 40 Dust. 
sliced very thin; a tablespoonful of salt 
and water enough to' cover. Let stand 
about an hour. Then drain and squeeze 
gently. Have ready one coffee-cup of 
slightly sour cream, quite thick. Add as 
much vinegar as you have cream, a dash 
of pepper and pour over your cucumbers. 
It is well to chill the cream before serving. 
To eat with this, Grandma boiled potatoes 
in dice and dressed them with fried bread 
crumbs. This is her recipe for potato 
salad: Boil a few extra potatoes at din¬ 
ner time. When cold, carefully slice very 
thin. Set away to chill. When supper 
time comes, cut for a quart of sliced po¬ 
tatoes one good-sized onion into thin 
slices. Add a dash of pepper. Take two 
big slices of bacon, very fat, cut into cubes, 
fry, add one-hait cupful of vinegar. Pom 
over the salad and toss lightly with two 
forks. 
If you come home from the Grange 
some cold night, tired and with a sore 
throat that preludes a cold, heat a cupful 
of rich milk almost to the boiling point. 
Butter a thick slice of bread. Break in 
pieces, pouring over it the milk. Add a 
dash of pepper and a bit of sugar. Pat 
piping hot. Go straight to bed, and sec 
how you feel in the morning. This is milk 
soup. ADAH E. COLCORD. 
“ Song of the Western Men.” 
Will yon tell your readers (lie circumstances 
that prompted the writing of the above poem, 
printed on page 578? E. s. 
Sir Jonathan Trelawney was one of the 
seven bishops who were imprisoned by 
James II. in the Tower in 1688. The story 
is told in the seventh chapter of Macau- 
ley’s “History,” and in any of the good 
Historical accounts of Cornwall.. Haw¬ 
ker’s note, in part, on his poem, is: 
“The choral lines 
“‘And shall Trelawney die? 
There’s twenty thousand Cornishmen 
Will know the reason why!’ 
have been, ever since the imprisonment of 
the seven Bishops—one of them Sir Jona¬ 
than Trelawney — a popular proverb 
throughout Cornwall.” 
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