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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
April 13 
[ Woman and Home 
From Day to Day. 
The pathway to the I^and of Life 
Passes the threshold of my door. 
It turns down yonder narrow street 
Hedged by the dwellings of the poor. 
It winds beside the house of woe, 
Under lit panes where watchers wait. 
Who strives too swiftly on that road 
Reaches the end too late. 
But he who pauses, turning back 
For deed of love, for word of cheer, 
Faithful, unhasting, unafraid. 
Nor wondering if the end be near— 
Lo! where the shadow blackest falls. 
While yet he seems midmost the strife, 
Enters through the uplifted gates 
Into the I-and of Life. 
—The Independent. 
• 
SritiNO walking suits are made this 
year with a skirt that barely touches at 
the back, and clears the ground at front 
and sides. Elaborate skirts are still long 
and flaring, but the sensible outing skirt 
has greatly modifled walking dresses by 
force of example. 
♦ 
A KRiENP in New York State says that 
she flnds the following remedy very use¬ 
ful in cases of croup: Equal parts of 
syrup of ipecac and wine of antimony; 
dose one-half teaspoonful every 15 min¬ 
utes until vomiting commences. This is 
a standard remedy for spasmodic croup. 
It must be borne in mind that mem¬ 
braneous croup, which is always dan¬ 
gerous and often fatal, is a totally dif¬ 
ferent disease, being diphtheritic in 
character; therefore remedies applicable 
to the distressing spasmodic croup would 
have no efficacy with the graver disease 
of similar name. 
* 
Among the Spring novelties shown at 
one well-known shop in New York are 
corsets of silk batiste, trimmed with 
Duchesse lace, and fastened with jew¬ 
eled gold clasps—price $185 each. They 
are not likely to become a prevalent 
mode. Among extravagances of style 
noted were sets consisting of hat, para¬ 
sol and boa to match In a combination 
of pink, blue and lavender. All three 
were made of tulle, one shade over the 
other, so that a clouded effect was given, 
the parasol having an outside frame¬ 
work of rose stems with realistic thorns, 
and a bordering wreath of roses and 
violets. The boa was a wreath of roses 
and violets in a frame of shaded tulle, 
and the same idea was carried out in the 
hat. Spring boas of tulle and flowers 
are seen in all the millinery displays; 
they are very pretty, very perishable, 
and quite useless. 
* 
Thekk is a farmer down in Maine who 
does not like a certain neighboring ship¬ 
master, and many are the mean things 
he says about him. Here is one of the 
tales hs tells, according to a contempor¬ 
ary: 
"Why, he bought a cow of a man down 
my way; good critter—nothin' the matter 
with her. But it seems the captain’s wife, 
one day, thought the milk tasted funny, 
and suggested that p’r’aps she’d been eatin’ 
spruce boughs; said the milk tasted like 
spruce. And what does he do but go out 
in the pasture to watch the cow, to see 
what she did eat. 
"The cow was layin* down, chewin’ her 
cud. and he went along and run his finger 
in her mouth to see what she was eatin’. 
Then he was mad. He put a rope on the 
cow, and started off with her. 
" ‘Where are you goin’ with the cow?’ 
says a neighbor. 
"Goin’ to take her back to the feller that 
sold her to me. He’s cheated me, and I 
won't stand it!’ 
"The man wanted to know what was the 
matter, and he went on to tell about it. 
‘She wasn’t eatin’ boughs,” he says, ‘she 
was chewing gum; that’s what the matter 
with the milk and makes It taste like 
spruce. And,’ he says, 'that ain’t all. She’s 
so addicted to the habit that she’s worn 
all her teeth out. She ain’t got an upper 
tooth in her head. Back she goes, quick!’ 
"Of course, the man told him that it was 
all non.sense; that cows never had no upper 
teeth. But he didn’t believe a word of it, 
and went on and had a tarnal row with 
the man that sold him the cow. Guess he 
was never satisfied about it.” 
* 
An original form of wishbone pen¬ 
wiper, recently seen, was an Indian 
brave. A small ball of red sealing wax 
is put on the top to form the head, and. 
while it is still warm, mouth, eyes and 
nose are marked in the wax. A black 
line marks the eyebrows, and the eyes 
are darkened. Pad the wishbone with 
cotton for the body and leave the ends 
of the bone for legs, covering them with 
fringed chamois. The body is covered 
with a piece of fringed chamois, fasten¬ 
ed behind, and a fringed square of the 
chamois is put over the shoulders shawl 
fashion, fastened with a gay bead. 
Strands of black silk form the hair, 
which is decorated with a tiny feather, 
and the feet are covered with moccasins 
of chamois fastened with red silk. The 
penwiper is hidden under the robe. 
* 
CiiAKi.oT'rE Mary Yonge, author of 
“The Heir of Redclyffe,” ‘‘The Daisy 
Chain,” and a long list of other books 
for young people, died at Otterbourne, 
England, March 25, aged 78. Miss Yonge 
did much for children of school age in 
bringing history, both ancient and mod¬ 
ern, within the range of their interest 
and comprehension. While, to an older 
reader, the too obvious moral inculcated 
sometimes weakens the literary force of 
her fiction, it is always wholesome read¬ 
ing, and recognition of her influence was 
shown a few years ago by the erection 
of a girls’ school in England, as a testi¬ 
monial to her. Miss Yonge gave liberal¬ 
ly of the proceeds of her work to char¬ 
ity, the profits of the “Daisy Chain” be¬ 
ing devoted to building a missionary 
college at Auckland, New Zealand, while 
the profits from “The Heir of Redclyffe” 
were used to fit out a missionary schoon¬ 
er, the Southern Cro-s, for Bishop Sel- 
wyn of New Zealand. Miss Yonge had 
been occupied in literary work for over 
50 years. 
The Rural Patterns. 
The useful outing shirt shown is cut 
with a shallow, pointed yoke at the 
back, below which it falls with slight 
fullness. The front fits smoothly, the 
opening being finished with an applied 
box pleat, which is extended below the 
waist line to give a shirt-waist effect 
when worn without a waistcoat. On the 
3746 Man’s Ouxing Shirt, 
34 to 44 In. breast. 
left side is placed a patch pocket that is 
finished with stitched edges. The sleeves 
are in regulation shirt style, finished 
with slightly rounded cuffs. The neck 
can be completed with a soft, rolling col¬ 
lar or a neckband, to which separate 
collars can be attached with studs, as 
preferred. To cut this shirt for a man 
of medium size 5% yards of material 21 
inches wide, 4% yards 27 inches wide, 
or 3% yards 32 inches wide will be re¬ 
quired. The pattern No. 374G is cut in 
sizes for-a 34, 36, 38, 40, 42 and 44-incli 
breast measure; price 10 cents from this 
office. 
Russian blouse costumes are very pop¬ 
ular for small girls. The pretty and 
stylish little model given is cut on Rus¬ 
sian lines with the long waisted effect 
now fashionable, and so conforms to the 
latest demand while being childlike and 
becoming to an unusual degree. As 
shown, the material is cotton cheviot in 
dull blue with bands of embroidery, but 
all cotton fabrics, madras, chambray, 
percale, piqu6 and the like as well as 
flannel and such woollen materials as 
cashmere and henrietta are entirely ap¬ 
propriate. The simple little blouse fits 
.3769 Girl’s Russian Costume, 
4 to 12 years. 
smoothly across the shoulders at the 
back, but includes fullness at the neck 
in front, and is arranged over the body 
lining that closes at the center front, 
the lower edge being gathered and the 
fullness distributed to give the best ef¬ 
fect. The skirt includes a smooth front, 
but is gathered at back and sides and 
joined to the waist, where a curved belt 
conceals the seam, and the entire gown 
laps over from the center to close in a 
continuous line at the left side. The 
lining is essential, as without it the skirt 
cannot be kept in place, but, if preferred 
the skirt alone can be attached, the 
blouse gathered at the lower edge and 
completed separately, with the belt at¬ 
tached to its lower edge, or finished and 
adjusted over the waist after the gown 
is closed as may be desired. To cut this 
costume for a girl of eight years of age 
AV 2 yards of material 27 inches wide, 
four yards 32 inches wide, or 2% yards 
44 inches wide will be required. The 
pattern No. 3769 is cut in sizes for girls 
of 4, 6, 8, 10 and 12 years of age; price 
10 cents from this office. 
Ik I can put one touch of a rosy sun¬ 
set into the life of any man or woman 
I shall feel that I have worked with God. 
—George Macdonald. 
To reprove a brother is like as when 
lie has fallen to lift him up again; when 
he hath broken a bone to help set it; 
when he is out of the way to help put 
him in it; when he has fallen into the 
fire to pluck him out.—Henry. 
No one can tell the unending power 
for good which each of us may have in 
our homes, among our fellowmen, by 
faith in them,—how far we can strength¬ 
en their feeble desire for God and all 
good. Care, then, for the soul of peo¬ 
ple, and for the soul of what they do, 
as well as of what they are.—Henry 
Wilder Foote. 
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Bank 
Wrecking 
and 
Bank Wreckers 
By Hon. Janies H. Eckels 
Ex'Comptroller of the Currency 
A vivid paper on bank wrecking 
and bank wreckers — the history 
of some famous failures — prac¬ 
tical business precautions — how 
to gu a rd aga i list St ea 1 i ng by trusted 
employees. One in a series of 
Tales of the Banker, to appear in 
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