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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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The Rural Patterns. 
The walking skirt illustrated is a 
new model. As shown the material is 
wood brown canvas stitched with silk, 
but all skirt and suiting materials are 
appropriate. The long tucks, forming 
groups at front and hack which are 
alike, are among the latest features 
shown and the shorter tucks over the 
hips do away with all bulk at that point:. 
The skirt is cut in five gores, the seams 
4673 Walking Skirt, 22 to 30 waist. 
being concealed by the long tucks which 
arc turned toward one another and meet, 
at the center. The side gores are 
tucked to yoke depth and the closing is 
made invisibly at the center back. The 
quantity of material required for medium 
size is 8% yards 21 inches wide, IV 2 . 
yards 27 inches wide, 5 yards 44 inches 
wide or 3% yards 52 inches wide. The 
pattern 4673 is cut in sizes for a 22, 24, 
26, 28 and 30 inch waist measure, price 
10 cents from this office. 
Cape effects of all sorts mark the 
season and are becoming to the general¬ 
ity of figures. This stylish waist shows 
a deep collar of a novel sort, and one 
that is quite simply made. As illus¬ 
trated the material for the blouse is 
white Persian lawn and the trimming 
embroidered flouncing and insertion. 
The flouncing makes the collar, which 
is seamed at the shoulders, where it 
droops well over the sleeves. All waist- 
ing materials are, however, appropriate 
and the cape collar can be made to 
match the waist, with the edge ern- 
<-071 Blouse Waist, 32 to 40 bust. 
broidered or trimmed in any manner 
that may be preferred. The waist is 
made with fronts and backs and is fitted 
by means of shoulder and under-arm 
seams. The fronts are tucked at the 
shoulders to yoke depth and both fronts 
and back are arranged in full length 
tucks that give a double box pleat effect 
at the center. The cape collar is shaped 
by means of the shoulder seams and its 
edges are attached beneath the outer 
tucks of these groups. The sleeves arc 
full below the elbows, smaller above and 
are finished with straight cuffs. The 
quantity of material required for me¬ 
dium size is 4 yards 21 inches wide, 3% 
yards 27 inches, or 2Vr yards 44 inches 
wide, with 1% yards of embroidery 9 
iin,ches wide for qape collar tand 1% 
yards of insertion to trim as illustrated 
in medium size. The pattern 1671 is 
cut in sizes for a 32, 34, 36, 38 and 40- 
inch bust measure, price 10 cents. 
** Better Titan a Farmer." 
In a recent number of one of the high- 
class magazines devoted to the aesthetic 
in country living, there is an account 
of an auction at an old homestead, and 
of the breaking up of one of the old-time 
New England homes. One of the mem¬ 
bers of the family is given these words: 
“I’ve got a son in college; he’s got to 
be something better than a farmer,” 
and it seems to me that the expression, 
though only given casually, should not 
go unchallenged in a magazine of such 
importance and attractiveness. For a 
young man who scans those pages, and 
meets such a sentence, it is, to say the 
least, discouraging, and not likely to 
bias him towards that life work if he 
has ambitions, and is thoughtfully con¬ 
sidering the subject. Yet it is not like¬ 
ly that the talents of any young man 
need be hidden under a bushel by set¬ 
tling on a farm, for there are plenty of 
opportunities for an illumination. The 
farmer of to-day must let his light shine 
before men, that they may realize bad 
or good work, for this honorable calling 
requires men of the best intelligence 
and enterprise, men of integrity and 
backbone, able to run their farms on 
business principles, and take their posi¬ 
tion with honor in the social and the 
commercial world. The ideal farmer is 
one who can combine college training 
with the farm, and in this way the 
agricultural colleges are doing a noble 
work. But on thousands of farms there 
are thoughtful and intelligent men who 
have attained success through much 
quiet home study, reading the best 
agricultural literature, and journeying 
by the slow but sure road of experience. 
The craze for money making or for 
notoriety settles down over our boys; 
they see the lights of the city luring 
them on, and know that in a rural life 
they are not likely to make—or lose— 
a fortune, or find their names in public 
print, in which respect a city career 
has possibilities. But the fascination 
would be powerless if it were not for 
the slurs cast by the literature of the 
day. “He must be something better 
than a farmer.” Yet in no better way 
can a young man make his influence 
felt among his peers, or tone his life 
work to the spirit of the times. 
He had his own free bookless lore, 
The lessons Nature taught him, 
The wisdom which the woods and hills 
And toiling men had brought him. 
Combined with the scientific teachings 
of to-day, the farmer’s occupation 
stands without a rival, and how many 
men, successful on other lines of work, 
grow tired of the unnatural and strenu¬ 
ous life, and return gladly to end their 
days in the country, having proved that 
there is nothing “better than a farmer.” 
ANNIE L. JACK. 
The Needs of the Farmers. 
We had a county Pomona Grange 
meeting here recently. The attendance 
was large, 160 present. It kept the feast 
committee hustling, and after dinner 
even a bird would have had hard pick¬ 
ing. At one time the rolls were running 
short. A very kind sister went home 
after bread, and left word for the baker 
to call at the hall. I was told to watch 
and when I saw a peculiar-looking team 
drive up to the door I hastily dispatched 
a brother to buy bread. When the broth¬ 
er returned with solemn face and empty 
hands we greeted him indignantly. The 
chairman exclaimed: “Well, I never, 
didn’t you get any'!” and various disap¬ 
proving remarks, stung the good man. 
“The fellow sells shoes. I’ll buy all 
you want, but you said bread,” he re¬ 
torted. Well, we managed after a fash¬ 
ion, and after dinner everyone went 
back to the assembly hall to discuss this 
question: “What does the farmer need 
most?” There were several excellent 
papers, with a sprinkling of fine music 
and reading. The room was crowded, 
and as I sat half way up on the stairs 
overlooking the audience I couldn’t help 
studying the men and women gathered 
there. At the first glance one would 
say it was in no way different from any 
body of people gathered together for a 
lecture or concert, but as one studied 
the faces they seemed to be particularly 
alert, eyes clear and bright, and no one 
face but what bore witness to an inward 
contentment, that can make a positive¬ 
ly plain person good to look upon. One 
gray-haired farmer rose in response to 
the lecturer’s introduction and simply, 
without a gesture, gave his opinion. 
The eloquence of truth and right-living 
held his audience. “In the first place, 
a farmer needs an interest in life. It 
must be a pleasure to him to watch 
things grow. He needs to own his farm 
just as soon as possible, and above all 
he needs patience and an inexhaustible 
fund of courage and ambition. Also, a 
farmer should be a genius. Of course 
you know that a genius is one ‘with a 
capacity for hard work’ A man in 
other professions must have the newest 
and best equipment, and a farmer stands 
vitally in need of the best machinery on 
the market. It is poor economy to buy 
anything but the best. A penny saved 
isn’t always a penny gained, and a farm¬ 
er who perhaps finds the pennies scarce 
does foolish things sometimes in the 
name of economy. After our farmer 
hasga home I think his greatest need is 
a wife—and a good wife. If the has her 
beside him, and children to love, he’ll 
be happy, if he isn’t rich, and possess 
something a Croesus envies—a real 
home.” 
We listened to a little ballad by a 
brcther with a fine voice, and then an¬ 
other white-haired man arose. “I agree 
with Brother G-. A farmer needs a 
home; and he needs to compare his 
home with the homes of other men in 
other occupations. I think the farm¬ 
ers do more grumbling about their work 
than any set of men I ever knew. ‘It’s 
poor business. A man’s a fool to be a 
farmer. I’m goin’ into something 
where there’s more money, or more lei¬ 
sure or more honor,’ they say. Those 
men need to see themselves as they are 
—failures. It isn’t their farms, it’s 
their own lack of energy and apprecia¬ 
tion that causes the trouble, or the in¬ 
difference that is creeping over them. 
They need to wake up and live. As a 
class farmers are the cleanest, strongest 
of all, and the most contented woman 
in the world, is the one who has lived, 
loved and brought up her children on a 
farm. She has been happier than she 
knew. But we can’t all be farmers, 
more’s the pity. It takes brains to 
farm; you will need all you have. A 
farmer needs to remember often what 
a lucky man he is to know enough to be 
a farmer.” 
Then a younger man took the floor. 
He ■was a successful farmer. “Now 
brothers, don’t give the other man all 
the advantage of a trade because you 
want to sell, and are too lazy to bother 
over a dollar. It isn’t the dollar, it’s 
the lack of business energy you show. 
Ir. puts you entirely in the background. 
A farmer needs to keep up with the 
times, and he must study all his life. 
There should be no monotony in farm 
life. It is too broad, deep, and too much 
a part of nature to stagnate. A farmer 
needs to study his land and himself. 
Don’t plant just what your neighbor 
does because his land joins yours. You 
and he are different men. A farmer 
needs a big family of growing children. 
Little lives begun and trained in pure, 
sweet country living will always supply 
the bone and sinew of this country. 
They help him financially, too. No one 
will work with you like your own boy. 
You can’t hire anyone to take his place. 
The boy should stay, too, not wholly 
because father needs him, but because 
he loves his work, feels capable of put¬ 
ting his best self into it, and because 
he wants to. Spend less trying to graft 
city customs, and more in developing 
country ones, and you won’t grow dis¬ 
satisfied with farming. A farmer’s wife 
should feel that she shares the work, 
and that there is a profit in farming 
that she will help to spend. I’ll guaran¬ 
tee she will prove the wisest of the two. 
If you treat her as a partner and even 
as the senior partner at that you will 
be all the better off, and she will never 
find a sphere she can enjoy more.” 
ADAH E. COI.COHD. 
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 
grain coffee compares with it in 
flavor or healthfulness. 
TRY IT TO-DAY. 
At grocer* everywhere : 15c And 15c. per packege. 
DONT 
GET WET! ® 
ASK YOUR DEALER FOB THE 
5LICIVEP 
MADE FAMOUS BY A DEPUTATION 
EXTENDING OVED MODE THAN, 
HALF A CENTUBY. 
TOWER’S garments and 
hats are made of the best 
materials in black or yellow 
for all kinds of wet work. 
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feet, height of celling, 
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MRS. WINSLOW’S 
SOOTHING SYRUP 
has been used by Millions of Mothers for their 
children while Teething for over Fifty Years. < 
It soothes the child, softens the gums, allays 1 
all pain, cures wind colic, and Is the best ( 
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TELEPHONES 
For Farmers’ Linos. 
Organize an exchange In your 
community. Full particulars fur¬ 
nished. Catalogue free. 
THE NORTH ELECTRIC CO., 
152 St. Clair Street, 
C' N. 301. CLEVELAND, O. 
How to Organize 
A Farmers’ Telephone Co. 
t 
structive telephone book espec- 
cially for the man who wants 
to know ALL about telephone 
matters. It tells how to organ¬ 
ize, how to build the lines; 
about different types of ’phones, 
construction; gives by-laws, and 
constitutions; in fact it is a tele¬ 
phone encyclopedia every farm¬ 
er should have. We send it free 
if you mention this paper. Ask 
for Book F- Tti, “Telephone Facts 
for Farmers.” You will get it by return 
mail. Address nearest office- 
Stromberg-Carlson Tel. Mfg. Co. 
Rochester, N. Y.— Chicago, III. 
Over 50 years ago. Doctors took right hold of it. Keep 
their hold yet. The best Sarsaparilla — Ayer’s. Lowelf, Mass. 
JAYNE’S EXPECTORANT 
CURES THE WORST COLDS. 
For 73 years the Standard Cough Remedy.. 
