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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
November 26 
l Woman and Home \ 
From Day to Day. 
A CALIFORNIA THANKSGIVING. 
Is this Thanksgiving? November, 
With the tender green of the hills 
Splashed with deep gold of poppies 
While sweet the meadow-lark trills? 
Thanksgiving—and violets blooming? 
O, by some wizard's device 
The year has skipped those pages 
Of the almanac's “snow and ice" ! 
November? And sunshine pouring 
From a cloudless turquoise sky 
While steeped in a trance of languor 
Warm, golden hours drift by? 
Gardens ablaze with color, 
And fragrant as vanished June 
Masking in robes of Summer; 
Can Winter come—and soon? 
Where are those dark, cold mornings 
With rime of hoar-frost white. 
The bare and leafless branches 
That moaned in the gales of night? 
Those gray days slowly dying 
In an angry flame of red, 
While keen the flash of starlight 
In the steely blue o'erhead? 
That is November ! Thanksgiving 
Brings snow to drift and hide 
Brown hills, while merry sleigh-bells 
Brings rovers home to bide. 
This in the land of sunshine 
Seems Indian Summer's prime, 
With the frost’s destroying fingers 
Stayed by a smiling Time. 
—Ella M. Sexton in Sunset Magazine. 
* 
Try a wooden potato masher for cream¬ 
ing together butter and sugar for cake. 
If the mixing bowl is slightly warmed, 
and the masher used in the accustomed 
manner, the work is greatly shortened. 
* 
Warmed-over meat may be served in a 
shortcake, as a pleasant variation from 
plain hash or mince. Chop the meat and 
simmer in a well-seasoned gravy. Make 
a shortcake with biscuit dough, and pour 
the meat, piping hot, over it. 
* 
Among new furs we saw recently muffs 
and flat tippets of Russian calf; muffs 
were $10 and tippets $12.50. They looked 
as though made from an ordinary red- 
and-white barnyard bossy. They are in¬ 
tended especially for automobile wear. 
* 
Some handsome baby’s afghans are 
crocheted in eiderdown wool, which is 
very fluffy and warm. Shell stitch is used, 
large shells alternately of blue and white 
or pink and white, with a band to run 
ribbon through, and a star stitch border 
fringed with interwoven loops of chain 
stitch. In the stores these afghans are 
priced at $2 each. 
* 
Newspaper reports say that the only 
candidate for the office of constable in one 
Colorado town is the wife of a well- 
known cattleman; she is the mother of 12 
children, and is said to be sufficiently 
athletic to make any arrest. If. she is 
able to bring up that bunch of 12 children 
in the way they should go we think she is 
entitled to a more distinguished office than 
that of a mere constable. 
Colonial brass buckle. This style, in all 
colors, costs $1.50. As a rule, however, 
the belt with narrow back and deeper 
front is distinctly unflattering to the fig¬ 
ure. A narrow belt of soft Russia leath¬ 
er, laid in pleats running under a brass 
buckle, is lined with Dresden silk, and 
costs $3. The owner of a handsome belt 
buckle can use it with a variety of belt 
ribbons, using one of those little metal 
girdle formers, costing 15 cents, to widen 
the back. After fitting the girdle former 
at the right place, it is well to put a little 
marking stitch at the edge of the ribbon, 
on either side; this is hidden when the 
edge is slipped over the metal, and saves 
much time in changing a ribbon. 
* 
Embroidery bandings are used to ad¬ 
vantage on collars, cuffs and down the 
fronts of waists, the effect being very good 
on plain dark shirt waist suits. A great 
many styles are used. Among them is an 
imitation of Maltese lace, blue and white, 
ecru and white, or plain white, at 35 cents 
a yard. A scalloped band of broderie 
anglaise, white, is 30 to 45 cents a yard; 
black and white 90 cents. Very dainty are 
hemstitched bands of organdie, edged with 
feather stitching in white, black or colors, 
at 25 cents a yard. Bands of organdie or 
fine lawn, with hand-made hem and tucks, 
are practically no expense, since they can 
often be made from scraps. They not 
only add daintiness to a woolen gown, but 
they also save wear and soil, and are often 
a wonderful freshener to a partly worn 
waist. 
The Rural Patterns. 
Coats with narrow vest fronts make one 
of the smartest of all models for the com¬ 
ing season. No. 4868 is exceptionally de¬ 
sirable, as it is fitted by means of the 
seams which extend to the shoulder and 
give tapering lines to the figure. As il¬ 
lustrated it is made of nut bro\vn broad¬ 
cloth with the vest of velvet and trimming 
of fancy braid, but all suitings and all ma¬ 
terials for separate coats are appropriate 
and the vest can be of contrasting cloth, 
silk brocade or velvet as may be preferred. 
The. coat is made with fronts, that are 
cut in two portions each, backs, side-backs 
and under-arm gores, the side-backs being 
lapped over on to the backs below the 
waist line. The sleeves are the new ones 
which are full at the shoulders, but plain 
at the wrists, where they are finished with 
4868 Coat with Vest Front, 32 to 42 bu»t. 
Shaded silk girdles, fitted high in the 
back, are new and graceful. They are 
made of silk that shades from deep-col¬ 
ored edges to a paler tone at the center. 
Sometimes they are varying tones of the 
same color, as from pale azure to marine 
blue, or from burnt rose to terra cotta, 
or they may shade from brown into blue 
or green. The back is boned and. fitted 
high with three rows of shirring; in 
front the belt is again shirred into a large 
Empire buckle, the end of the silk being 
cut into a point, and hemstitched. These 
girdles, which are very wide and cling¬ 
ing, cost $4 each. It must not be imag¬ 
ined, because of the favor given to .silk 
belts, that leather is out of vogue, only the 
leather belts have changed their appear¬ 
ance greatly from the old strap style. 
They are usually wide, with girdle back, 
but we also see a new style with narrow 
back and wide front held by a large plain 
roll-over cuffs. The narrow vest is sepa¬ 
rate and attached' under the fronts, the 
closing being made at the center. The 
quantity of materia] required for the me¬ 
dium size is 4J4 yards 27 inches wide, 2^4 
yards 44 inches wide or 2/ 2 yards 52 
inches wide, with J4 yard of velvet and 
2'A yards of braid to make as illustrated. 
The pattern 4868 is cut in sizes for a 32. 
34, 36, 38, 40 and 42 inch bust measure; 
price 10 cents. 
The coat of three-quarter length will be 
greatly worn in many variations. No. 
4806 is especially designed for traveling, 
touring and the like, and is loose and 
ample. As illustrated the material is 
cravenette cloth stitched with silk, but all 
the materials that are used for garments 
of the sort are equally appropriate. The 
coat is made with fronts and back and is 
shaped by means of shoulder and under¬ 
arm seams. The fullness at the back is 
confined by a strap, which is attached by 
buttons at the waist line, and the closing 
is made in double breasted style. The 
sleeves are wide and ample, gathered into 
roll-over cuffs and the neck is finished in 
regulation coat style. The quantity of 
material required for the medium size is 
6JA yards 27 inches wide, 3J4 yards 44 
inches wide or 3JX yards 52 inches wide. 
The pattern 4806 is cut in sizes for a 32, 
34, 36, 38, 40 and 42 inch bust measure; 
price 10 cents._ 
Warm Feet. 
The first of the Winter we put woolen 
stockings on the child, but her shoes 
were of leather with thin soles. Conse¬ 
quently her feet were cold and damp. If 
she went out of doors, even with leggings 
and rubbers on, when she came in her feet 
would be like ice. When the snow came 
we did not dare to let her go out on it 
at all. She had two colds, and the last 
one hung on a long time. We tried to 
get felt shoes for her, but tliey were not to 
be had at the shoe store. At last we sent 
to a well-known firm who make felt shoes, 
and ordered a pair for $1. a half size 
larger than the leather ones she was wear¬ 
ing. They came by mail rn a few days. 
They were button boots, of navy blue 
felt, with gray felt soles, and black 
leather toe-caps and back-stays. They 
were very neat and pretty and fitted well. 
Best of all, they kept the child’s feet dry 
and warm. Just as soon as her feet were 
kept warm, her cold began to get better. 
Now. with rubbers and leggings on, she 
can run around on the snow with com¬ 
fort. Indeed, one day she stayed out half 
an hour with the thermometer at 15, and 
then did not want to come indoors. I 
know another child who wears cotton 
stockings and thin leather shoes, and her 
feet are icy cold most of the time. She 
is sick occasionally, and is nervous and 
irritable, and I think it more than likely 
that her improper footwear is partly to 
blame. I think some people might hesi¬ 
tate about getting felt shoes for their chil¬ 
dren, fearing they would look clumsy, but 
this is certainly not the case with these 
pretty little blue shoes. 
SUSAN BROWN ROBBINS. 
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that makes the 
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\ 
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Established, 1876. Buffalo, N. F. 
Butchering 
Time 
No. 26-4 Qts. Price, $5.60 
It’s surprising how much time and 
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and a big help. No other machine 
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