1904 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
The Rural Patterns. 
The fan-pleated skirt shown is cut in 
12 gores, there being a seam at the cen¬ 
ter front, and is laid in fan pleats at 
each seam. The closing is made invis¬ 
ibly at the back above the pleats, the 
placket being finished with a deep un¬ 
der-lap. When liked the front and side 
gores can be cut to form a dip at the 
4697 Fan Plaited Skirt, 
22 to 30 waist. 
waist line, the belt omitted and the edge 
under-faced or bound. The quantity of 
material required for the medium size is 
16% yards 21 or 27 inches wide or 814 
yards 44 inches wide when material has 
figure or nap; 12 yards 27 inches wide or 
6% yards 44 inches wide when material 
has neither figure nor nap. The pattern 
No. 4697 is cut in sizes for a 22, 24, 26, 
28 and 30-inch waist measure; price 10 
cents from this office. 
This waist includes quite novel sleeves 
and is well adapted to the embroidery 
that is so fashionable, although it can 
be trimmed in many ways. The original 
is of white butcher’s linen and is em¬ 
broidered in French style with a raised 
design, but all the season’s waistings 
are appropriate and bands of insertion 
or inset medallions can be made to take 
the place of the needlework. The waist 
is made with fronts and back; the fronts 
are tucked at the shoulders and again at 
4700 Blouse or Shirt Waist, 
32 to 40 bust. 
each side of the center pleat, so giving a 
double box pleat effect, and the back to 
give tapering lines. The sleeves, which 
make the essential feature of the waist, 
are tucked above the elbows and laid in 
overlapping pleats above the straight 
cuffs, and also are shaped by means of 
darts that are concealed by the pleats. 
The quantity of material required for 
the medium size is four yards 21 inches 
wide, 3% yards 27 inches wide or 2% 
yards 44 inches wide. The pattern No. 
4700 is cut in sizes for a 32, 34, 36, 38 
and 40-inch bust measure; price 10 
cents from this office. 
Wife means weaver. You must be 
either housewives or house moths, re¬ 
member that. In the deep sense, you 
must either weave men’s fortunes and 
embroider them, or feed upon them and 
bring them to decay. Wherever a true 
wife comes, home is always around her 
The stars may be overhead, the glow 
worm in the night’s cold grass may be 
the fire at her feet, but home is where 
she is, and for a noble woman it 
stretches far around her better than a 
house ceiled with cedar or painted with 
vermilion, shedding its quiet light for 
those who are homeless.—Ruskin. 
371 
The Sturdy Heel. 
Euphemia had come home from the 
normal school, says the Youth’s Com¬ 
panion. She used to be “Effie,” but her 
childish name had expanded with her 
growth, and she was living up to it. 
Her mother was a brisk little woman 
who did prodigious quantities of house¬ 
work in a cheerful spirit, and stayed 
not to consider the appearance she made 
in process of doing it. But her meager 
culture sometimes troubled Euphemia. 
“Mama,” said Euphemia one day, “do 
you ever think it would be better to 
walk on the balls of your feet?” 
Her mother was careering round the 
kitchen, beating up eggs at the table, 
now and again pausing to stir something 
on the fire. She stopped in mid-air. 
“The balls of my feet?” she repeated. 
“My feet are all right.” 
“Yes,” said Euphemia, delicately, “but 
you get a better poise by throwing the 
weight forward. Besides, mama, it 
makes less noise. Sometimes you step 
very heavily.” 
Her mother still paused, a spoon in 
one capable hand. She looked like a 
woman who could cook anything ever 
thought of, and preside jovially over 
the eating of it. 
“Effie,” said she, thoughtfully, “Effie, 
did you ever get up at three o’clock in 
the morning and see to the milk and 
get the breakfast for five men, and then 
do a big ironing while you were fussing 
about dinner and looking out for a 
teething baby?” 
“Why, no, mama,” said Euphemia, al¬ 
most fretfully. “You know I never did.” 
“There, dear, of course you didn’t,” 
said her mother, tenderly. “I wouldn’t 
have let you while I had the strength to 
do it. But 1 tell you what, Effie, if you 
ever do undertake anything like that 
you’ll find the only way to get through 
it is to put your heels down hard, same 
as you grit your teeth. Why. some¬ 
times, when the work’s getting ahead 
of me, and I know I’ve got to run like a 
dog all day to keep up, I should just sit 
right down and give out if I couldn’t 
hear my feet go pound, pound, over the 
house. Then I know something’s going 
on.” 
“Yes, mother,” said Euphemia, quite 
meekly. “You sit down now and peel 
the potatoes, and I’ll iron out the 
towels.” _ 
Better to hunt in fields for health un¬ 
bought 
Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught; 
The wise for cure on exercise depend, 
God never made his work for man to mend. 
—Dryden. 
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