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TII K RURAL NEW-YORKER 
October 15, 
[ Woman and Home ] 
From Day to Day. 
LIFE’S TRAGEDIES. 
Thou art not to be pitied, who hast known 
The threat of midnight when the forelands 
moan 
And all the winds are out; 
Dread and despair and anguish—the great 
things 
That sit like, crowns upon the brows of Kings 
Or that Queens weep about 
—If by these only thou has been accursed, 
Grieve not too much; for mese are not the 
worst. 
It is the slow and softly dropping tears 
That bring the furrows to man’s face; the 
years. 
Falling and fall’n in vain, 
That turn the gold to gray upon his head; 
And the dull days to disappointment wed, 
And pain that follows pain 
That make life bitter in the mouth, and strew 
The dead with roses, but the quick with yew. 
Better a wide and windy world, and scope 
For rise and downfall of a mighty hope, 
Than many little ills; 
Better the sudden horror, the swift wrong, 
Than doubts and cares that die not, and the 
long 
Monotony that kills; 
The empty dawns, pale stars, and narrow 
skies, 
Mean hopes, mean fears, mean sorrows, and 
mean sighs. 
—Gerald Gould in the London Spectator. 
• 
Personally we do not care for a valance 
around a brass or iron bed, because we 
think the fewer dust-collecting hangings 
the better; if, however, it is desired, it is 
often a puzzle how best to attach it. A 
very good way is to attach the valance to 
a coarse sheet just the size of the bed, 
spreading this over the wire mattress. The 
mattress above keeps the sheet smooth and 
the valance is always in place. 
* 
At the end of the Summer one often sees 
remnants of pretty light challis, in small 
flowered patterns, which are sold cheap. 
Such a remnant may be made into a baby’s 
carriage robe, or a foot-cover (couvre- 
pied, as the faneywork authorities call it) 
to lay across the foot of the bed. The ma¬ 
terial is interlined with one or two thick¬ 
nesses of cotton batting, and tufted with 
baby ribbon matching the deepest tint in 
the flowers. Such a cover makes a very 
dainty gift. 
* 
According to a truthful man from 
Maine, a tramp up in Piscataquis County 
rang a doorbell the other day, and when 
the woman of the house, a raw-boned, de¬ 
termined looking person, came to the door, 
he asked, thinking it a good joke: 
‘‘Madame, will you marry me?’’ 
The woman unrolled her sleeves, reached 
for her hat and jacket and said: 
“Well, I’ve buried four on ye, and I 
reckin I ain’t takin’ no stump!” The 
tramp fled. 
♦ 
Fleece-back pique, which was used to 
make warm washing waists last Fall, has 
appeared again in a great variety of pat¬ 
terns, dots and sprigs of color on a white 
ground, at 29 cents a yard. French waist- 
ing flannels at 59 cents a yard are very 
handsome in rich Persian patterns, both 
light and dark. White albatross at about 
39 cents a yard is excellent when a thin 
woolen waist is required, as a little orna¬ 
mentation makes it quite dressy, and it 
washes admirably. 
* 
Pickled red cabbage does not seem quite 
such a favorite with Americans as with 
foreigners. Here is a tested German 
recipe. Cut a red cabbage of good size into 
six pieces, sprinkle it with salt and leave 
it for a day and a night. Then drain off 
the liquid, rinse it with cold water and let 
it soak in fresh cold water. Scald half a 
gallon of vinegar with a dozen whole 
cloves and white peppers and a few blades 
of mace broken fine. Turn in half a cup¬ 
ful of sugar and two or three tablespoon¬ 
fuls of celery seed. Cook slowly for a 
quarter of an hour. Have the cabbage, 
drained and dried, packed into a stonejar. 
Turn the hot vinegar over it and put it m 
a cool place. The cabbage will be at its 
best in two months. 
* 
Knitted head and shoulder shawls, 
either in silk or woolen, are in as great 
favor now as a quarter of a century ago. 
The silk head shawls, offered for evening 
wear in white and delicate colors, cost 
readymade, 95 cents to $1.50; silk shoulder 
shawls $2.50 to $10, and wool shoulder 
shawls $1.35 to $5.50. Any woman with a 
taste for knitting may make a superior 
article for the cost of the material. Shet¬ 
land wool is used for the fine shawls, 
which are very soft and cobwebby. 
* 
In making the little French dresses so 
popular for small girls the fullness of the 
blouse is adjusted by using a waist lining 
and sewing the skirt to its lower edge. 
This lining is cut low in the neck, and fin¬ 
ished like an underwaist, while the belt is 
bias; on it are the buttons to which the 
waist is attached. The outside waist is 
finished with a belt put on like a binding, 
but wide enough for buttonholes to attach 
it to the buttons of the lining. There 
should be loops at either side to hold the 
sash in place. 
Charity Sweetheart’s Letters. 
It has been a busy week, for I have had 
a new impulse to do extra work, and it 
has made me more hopeful for the future. 
Some, time ago a friend who had been to 
St. Louis the latter part of Summer told 
me, on returning, that she wanted to go 
away again with her husband for a trip, 
but hadn’t a bit of jam or jelly made. A 
sudden inspiration came to me, for I knew 
my jelly was always considered a success, 
so I said: “If you like to send me the pots, 
with the sugar, I can make you up some 
with the Hyslop crab apples that grow on 
my tree. It was one Father planted for 
me years ago, and had two or three bushels 
of the reddest fruit. It makes the richest 
colored jelly and has a distinct flavor that 
most people like.” I wondered afterwards 
how I managed to make the suggestion. 
My friend was glad of the chance, and told 
me to make her some wild grape jam at 
the same time. So I took courage, and 
had determination to make a good article 
and make it pay, for I could foresee that 
there was a chance in future years to start 
a good business in this line, and earn 
money at home. In most communities 
there are likely to be a few customers 
who prefer to purchase if they could be 
sure of a good article. 
It’s quite a work to boil and strain such 
a quantity, especially as the kettle is small. 
But I had the prospect of a little pocket 
money before me and worked with a right 
good will In the first place, I cut out all 
specks and took off the stalks, then boiled 
a peck of the crab apples for an hour in 
as much water as covered them. This 
was put hot into a jelly bag without any 
pressure, but just drained, and to each 
pint of the syrup it required a pound of 
granulated sugar. It needed close watch¬ 
ing in order to take it off the moment it 
came to a “jell,” and a tin plate set on a 
bit of ice or upon a vessel of cold water, 
soon told when it was the proper con¬ 
sistency. There was a grapevine at the 
end of the garden, the grapes only a little 
removed from the wild, and they were 
seldom used. So by the promise of giving 
Minty a share of the jam I got the fruit 
for the gathering. The skins were sep¬ 
arated from the pulp, keeping them in 
separate dishes, then the pulp was put into 
the preserving kettle with a teacupful of 
water, and when heated run through a 
colander to separate the seeds. This was 
put with the skins and weighed, adding a 
pound of sugar to each pound of fruit. 
Cook slowly to keep from burning, for 
three-quarters of an hour. Minty and 
my friend both pronounced it delicious. 
The boys always go to Sunday School, 
and Minty says it is so comfortable to 
have them away, so that we know where 
they are, and she can have a quiet sleep all 
afternoon on Sunday, or visit a neighbor. 
Little boys do not appear to enjoy the 
study of the lesson, or learning the “gold¬ 
en text,” and I have some trouble to teach 
them, for it does not seem fair to a teacher 
that the parents expect them to regenerate 
their children in one hour a week, when 
they have charge of them all the rest of 
the time. Last week the subject was the 
miracle of the loaves and fishes. But when 
I tried to convey to them the spirit of that 
miracle they were the greatest little scep¬ 
tics I had ever contended with. Miracles 
that healed the sick, and gave sight to the 
blind they grasped easily. 
And so in the mixture of work and play 
the Autumn days are passing, and I look 
forward to being able to purchase some 
books, and make little home improvements 
with the money earned this last two weeks. 
After all, there is a great deal can be done 
on a farm with a little fruit, and next 
year I shall hope to do more towards 
being self-helpful, and earning my pocket 
money. charity sweetheart. 
The Rural Patterns. 
The seven-gored tucked skirt, No. 4830, 
is a simple pattern, which will be found 
satisfactory either for a separate skirt, or 
as part of a suit. The skirt is cut in seven 
gores and is laid in backward turning 
pleats that are made deeper below than 
above the stitchings by means of exten¬ 
sions at the edge of each gore. The quan¬ 
tity of material required for the medium. 
22 to 32 waist. 
size is yards 27 inches wide, five yards 
44 inches wide or A l / 2 yards 52 inches wide, 
when material has figure or nap; 6^4 yards 
27, zy 2 yards 44 or three yards 52 inches 
wide when material has neither figure nor 
nap. The pattern 4830 is cut in sizes for 
22, 24, 26, 28, 30 and 32 inch waist meas¬ 
ure; price 10 cents. 
A very good model for a misses’ skirt is 
shown in No. 4825. It is made of plaid, j 
cut bias and stitched with silk. The pleats 
are turned backward and are so arranged 
as to conceal all seams, while the many 
gores do away with unnecessary bulk. All 
suiting and skirting materials are appro¬ 
4825 Misses’ Seven Gored Kilted Skirt, 
12 to 16 yrs. 
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AXD LINE MATERIAL FOR 
FARMERS’ LINES 
bo simple you can build your own line. 
Instruction book and price list free. The 
Williams Telephone & Supply Co. 
77 Central Ave., Cleveland, O. 
priate. The skirt consists of seven gores 
and is closed invisibly at the center back. 
The pleats are laid on indicated lines and 
are pressed flat for their entire length, but 
stitched for a portion only. The quantity 
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urn, nickel top ring, name 
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