220 
March 23 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
[ Woman and Home ] 
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From Day to Day. 
MJSS MANDVS NKW YORK TRIP. 
Miss Mandy wuz the keerfullest house¬ 
keeper, high or low! 
Warn't no one in the country could make 
a dollar go 
As fur as she could make it, in purchasin’ 
o’ things— 
She pulled the eagle’s feathers, an’ spread 
the eagle’s wings! 
The keerfullest housekeeper—the grocery- 
men all roun’, 
'They shook to see her cornin’ like a earth¬ 
quake shook the groun’! 
They couldn’t git ahead o’ her—her motto 
wuz, all times: 
’’The dimes—they make the dollars, an’ the 
dollars make the dimes!” 
Well, she’d never been out Billville sence 
the town wuz corporate, 
'I'ill some o’ them swell friends o’ hers took 
lier to New York State— 
To the very city of it—the biggest, best 
hotel, 
Whar each minute meant more money than 
arithmetics could tell! 
'Ihe waiters thronged aroun’ her, all 
dressed up fit to kill; 
An’ ever’ time she went to eat, she asked 
’em: “What’s the bill?” 
An’, lookin’ at the bill o’ fare, she only 
shook her head. 
An’ to the great surprise o’ all, she hol¬ 
lered out, “Cornbread!” 
It all wuz jest too much fer her—to see a 
waiter smile. 
Up thar meant just two dollars, which at 
home would go a mile! 
An’ so she couldn’t stand it; she left that 
New York shore; 
An’ she’s now at home in Billville, to 
economize some more! 
—Atlanta Constitution. 
» 
Among Spring colors dough is a pas¬ 
tel shade of beige or biscuit. It is 
lather hard to say where is the exact 
distinction in the beige tints—biscuit, 
castor or tan. Mode generally means a 
mushroomy tint -with a pinkish sugges¬ 
tion in it, but, on the other hand, tan 
or almond shades are often called mode. 
♦ 
Saxjsages always spatter so badly 
when being fried that their cooking is 
decidedly detrimental to a clean stove. 
This is avoided by putting in a baking 
pan and cooking in a hot oven for 10 
minutes. This is an old Dutch method. 
It is also a good plan when cooking 
sausages to boil them for eight minutes, 
allow them to cool, and then fry them 
brown. They are thus well cooked (a 
very necessary thing with pork) without 
being cooked hard, and they also seem 
less greasy than when fried in the ordi- 
nai-y way. 
* 
This is the season of millinery open¬ 
ings, when the windows are all filled 
with flower-garden hats. They seem 
more floriferous than ever this year, and 
the blossoms themselves are striking¬ 
ly suggestive of the color plates in a 
seedsman’s catalogue. A majority of 
the hats so far shown are made shapes 
of tulle, maline, chiffon and mouselaine 
de soie; the straw hats will appear 
later. Large toques or turbans, worn 
off the face, are especially prominent, 
and great use is made of shaded colors, 
melting one into another. Folds rather 
than shirring seem favored. One very 
jiretty toque seen was of wood brown 
tulle shading to beige, trimmed with 
white roses with brown satin foliage. 
The few straws seen are coarse, heavi¬ 
ly-plaited braids, but they are usually 
very light in spite of a heavy appear¬ 
ance. This is especially true of what 
is called pineapple straw, which has a 
beautiful silky luster. A hat noticed 
at an opening Avas of mode pineapple 
straw, Avith a flat croAvn and rather wide 
brim turned up in front. It was trim¬ 
med with flat bows of inch-Avide tur¬ 
quoise blue velvet, and long sprays of 
maidenhair fern, delightfully natural in 
appearance. The raulysnuth hat, so 
popular for outing wear last Spring, has 
appeared again; it is modified a little in 
shape, so as to be more becoming, and 
is not poked forward quite so much as 
it was. The usual trimming is a large 
bow in front with a long (but not stiff) 
feather sweeping back. Eminence red, 
often referred to as a trimming for out¬ 
ing hats, is our old friend cardinal un¬ 
der another name. 
* 
At this season we always envy those 
fortunate readers who have a sugar. 
bush, Avhence they may obtain really 
authentic maple sugar. We have to buy 
our “genuine Vermont maple sugar” 
from a confectioner, and we often 
wonder how nearly it resembles that 
sophisticated product described some 
time ago by an Ohio correspondent, in 
Avhich maple chips and pigskin Avere 
used to inpart the “natural” flavor to 
syrup. Maple sugar may be used in 
many culinary ways, as well as upon 
cakes. A delicious pudding sauce is 
made by melting four ounces of this 
sugar in a cupful of hot cream, con¬ 
tinuing to stir until the sugar is all 
melted. This is very good with apple, 
or with plain steamed pudding. A cup¬ 
ful of maple sugar broken into small 
lumps (not into powder), may be stirred 
into a panful of biscuit-dough just be¬ 
fore cutting, or into waffles or flannel 
cakes. Maple fudge makes a very nice 
filling for laj’-er cakes, and the same use 
may be made of the chocolate fudge, so 
dear to college girls, a little extra but¬ 
ter being used to prevent it from hard¬ 
ening too much. It is I’icher than ordi¬ 
nary chocolate filling. 
The Rural Patterns. 
The open blouse and the tucked skirt 
combine to make as charming a little 
girl’s costume as can be devised. The 
excellent model illustrated combines all 
the latest features. As shoAvn, the ma¬ 
terial is foule cloth in Russian blue, 
with trimming of darker blue velvet, full 
vest and undersleeves of dotted silk, but 
3742 Girl's Costume, 
6 to 12 Years. 
henrietta, cashmere and all lightAveight 
Avool fabrics are equally suitable. The 
pleated skirt has many advantages that 
are all its own. Being stitched flat it 
fits snugly at the upper portion, yet falls 
in ample folds at the feet. The founda¬ 
tion is a fitted lining that closes at the 
center front. On it are arranged the 
back, the fronts and the full plastron. 
The back is smooth across the .shoul¬ 
ders and draAvn down in gathers at the 
Avaist line. The full plastron is attached 
permanently to the right lining front 
and hooked over on to the left. The 
fronts are smooth across the shoulders, 
but full at the waist, and are extended 
to form pointed revers. The right front 
edge is tacked over the full plastron, the 
left is hooked invisibly into place. The 
sleeves are double and include the fash¬ 
ionable Paquin cufts, which are attached 
to the lining, Avhile the upper portions, 
turned back to form cuffs, are slipped 
over the whole. To cut this costume for 
a girl of eight years of age 4% yards of 
material 21 inches wide, 3% yards 27 
3752 Boy's Blouse. 
4 to 12 Y^ars. 
inches wide, or 2% yards 44 inches wide, 
will oe required, with % yard 32, or 44 
inches Avide for plastron, collar and un- 
ciersleeves. The pattern No. 3742 is cut 
in sizes for girls of 6, 8, 10 and 12 years 
of age; price 10 cents from this office. 
A blouse is a very comfortable and 
satisfactory garment for the small boy. 
The model shown is well suited to home 
making, and can be relied upon to fit 
nicely. As illustrated, it is of English 
percale in blue and white, but cheviot, 
madras, shirting, cottons and both 
Scotch and French flannels and sei-ge 
are equally suitable. The fronts and 
back fit smoothly, the shoulder seams 
being strengthened by applied straps 
stitched on both edges. A hem is pro¬ 
vided at the lower edge through which 
tape or elastic is inserted to adjust the 
fullness, which droops over in regular 
blouse style. At the center fi’ont is the 
regulation box pleat, through which but¬ 
tonholes are worked that, with the but¬ 
tons, effect the closing. At the left side 
is a patch pocket; at the neck is a soft 
turn-OA'er collar or a neckband to Avhich 
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and Needs 
of 0\ir Civil 
Service 
By ejfPresideni 
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Sent to any address three tnonths (13 weeks) 
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collars may be attached. The sleeves 
are in shirt style finished with straight 
cuffs that close at the back. Avhere an 
opening is cut in the sleeves and finished 
Avith a pointed overlap. To cut this 
blouse for a' boy of eight years of age 
2% yards of material 27 inches wide, or 
tAA'o yards 32 inches wide, wi’l be re¬ 
quired. The pattern No. 3752 is cut in 
sizes for boys of 4, 6, 8, 10 and 12 years 
of age; price 10 cents. 
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