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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
April 20 
From Day to Day. 
Not liers tlie New Time’s lofty lot— 
'I’o questions big replying; 
She only knows to keep the cot 
And soothe the children s crying. 
Not hers to stand In temples bright, 
Sad strife for strife returning; 
She only knows the lamps to light 
And keep the home fires burning. 
Not hers to move with iron will 
In paths of strange endeavor; 
She only knows that Home is still 
The sweetest name forever! 
There arc her joys, and there her tears— 
A life so sweetly human. 
The world shall whisper through the years; 
‘‘God bless that little woman!’‘ 
—Atlanta Constitution. 
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Never use soap in washing windows. 
Washing soda and kerosene are both 
better for this use. If the soda is used, 
dissolve a little in the water, and wash 
the glass with a flannel cloth. Kerosene 
is very effectual in removing dust and 
grime; wet a cloth, wring it partially 
dry, pour a little kerosene on it, and rub 
the glass. Chamois first dampened with 
water and then with a little ammonia, 
is also good for the same. A good pol¬ 
isher for glass is whiting moistened with 
tea, to be rubbed on with a rag, and 
rubbed off again with dry flannel. Heat¬ 
ed vinegar will remove specks of paint 
or plaster, hardened upon the glass. 
Chamois skins cut and shaped Into a 
sponge-like ball are sold especially for 
polishing windows. 
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In making wash dresses, a good ef¬ 
fect is gained by taking a couple of lit¬ 
tle tucks on the inside seam of the 
sleeve at the elbow, and in this way giv¬ 
ing a slightly puffed effect outside. In 
little girls’ guimpe dresses the prevail¬ 
ing style still continues to have a gath¬ 
ered straight skirt and baby waist, cut 
round in the neck, as before, with a deep 
ruffle for finishing. In several smart 
little frocks noted, instead of a little 
sleeve puff, the armhole was finished 
with a four-inch frill, which would set 
out over the sleeve of the guimpe. A 
child’s fine white frock has a very 
stylish appearance when trimmed with 
black ribbon velvet of baby width. One 
little frock for a girl of six or eight, 
made of white Persian lawn, had two 
rows of lace insertion at the head of the 
hem, with several rows of black ribbon 
velvet between them; the belt was form¬ 
ed of the ribbon velvet, having in the 
back a puffy little rosette of white satin; 
a similar satin rosette was put on the 
bertha or frill around the yoke, a little 
at the left of the front. 
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We have had something to say, from 
time to time, concerning the Sunshine 
Society, which now claims a large mem¬ 
bership throughout this and other coun¬ 
tries. Just as charity begins properly 
at home, so may mental and moral sun¬ 
shine. Many good people seem to think 
that man was made to mourn, and that 
it is a sign of innate frivolity to greet 
unkind fortune with a smiling face. How 
often have we eaten solemn meals in 
unsmiling households, where the slight¬ 
est attempt at a joke seemed as explo¬ 
sive as a dynamite cracker, and where 
apparently each member of the family 
carefully selected the most depressing 
fact within his experience, as his con¬ 
tribution to the general conversation! 
In working households, the entire fam¬ 
ily is rarely assembled save at meals, 
and it is the plain duty of each person 
present to make the assemblage as 
pleasant as possible! We cannot expect 
hardworked, over-tired people to devote 
their thoughts to the art of conversa¬ 
tion, but they may, at least, avoid “trou¬ 
ble, sorrow, need, sickness, and all other 
adversity.” If we all dej;ermine to save 
up pleasant happenings, innocent jokes, 
kindly thoughts and interesting things 
seen, heard or read, as our contribu¬ 
tions to the family table, we may reap 
both mental and physical benefit, for 
when we eat in company with peace and 
happiness, then, most surely, does 
“good digestion wait on appetite, and 
health on both.” 
It was recently asserted, at a meeting 
of a Chicago women’s club, that good 
home cooking is becoming one of the 
lost arts. The reason offered for this 
3755 Tucked Shirt Waist, 
32 to 40 in bust. 
pessimistic opinion is that formerly wo¬ 
men used to spend their days in the kit¬ 
chen in constant practice, whereas they 
now devote their attention to other 
tilings. It was also said that the mod¬ 
ern gas stove could never equal the ojd 
brick oven for baking. The mention of 
the brick oven brought out reminiscen¬ 
ces concerning pie, and one woman pres¬ 
ent told how her grandmother made 40 
or 50 mince pies at Thanksgiving, so as 
to have enough to last over Christmas. 
This seemed too much for the belief of 
some of the modern housekeepers pres¬ 
ent, but another speaker said that in her 
New England home they made enough 
pies at once to last from Thanksgiving 
to the last of March! They were stored 
in long rows up in the attic, where they 
always froze hard, and it was further 
asserted that there never was a pie equal 
to one of those that had frozen, and 
been thawed out just before dinner. 
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A GOOD many intelligent people will 
sympathize with the point of view ex¬ 
pressed by Mr. Jowders, as thus record¬ 
ed in the Youth’s Companion: 
Mr. Jowders looked gloomily at the letter 
to which he had Just painfully affixed his 
signature, and then cast a dubious glance 
at his wife. 
“Do you want to just run this over before 
1 send it to son James?” he inquired; and 
when Mrs. Jowders shook her head, he 
hastily folded the sheet, which bore the 
marks of hours of toil, and thrust it into 
an envelope, which he sealed with trembling 
expedition, and then leaned back in his 
chair with an air of relief. 
“I was afeared you'd want to read it, and 
ilien most likely 'twould be all to do over 
again, mother, like the last one,” he said. 
“But I'm glad James wrote he didn't mind 
a word misspelled here an' there. There’s 
some things I can do, but I never could 
seem to get a good purchase on the system 
of spelling, someway. 
“As I view it,” continued Mr. Jowders, 
“there's some words you can spell by the 
looks, and some you can spell by the sound; 
them I can most gen'lly manage. But when 
you come to spelling by jedgment and main 
stren’th, my chances are about as slim aa 
(hey make 'em.” 
By desiring what is perfectly good 
even when we don’t quite know what it 
is and cannot do what we would, we are 
a part of the divine power against evil 
—widening the skirts of light, and mak¬ 
ing the struggle with darkness narrow¬ 
er.—George Eliot. 
The Rural Patterns. 
The finely tucked shirt waist has a 
vogue which few styles can rival. The 
charming model illustrated is of linen 
batiste, with trimming of needlework, 
but is entirely suitable for all the thin¬ 
ner, finer washable fabrics, and for soft- 
finished silks. When made from cot¬ 
ton or linen it should be left unlined, 
but silks look better and wear better 
when made over a fitted foundation. The 
simple lining is correctly fitted with 
single bust darts, under-arm, shoulder 
and center back seams. The back prop¬ 
er is laid in two groups of five straight 
tucks, the fronts in three groups each, 
with larger tucks between extending to 
yoke depth only. The sailor collar is 
entirely separate and could be omitted 
if a plainer waist is preferred. The shirt 
waist sleeves are in bishop style with 
invisible openings at the back, finished 
with straight cuffs. At the neck is a 
stock collar covered with the tucked ma¬ 
terial. To cut’this waist for a woman of 
medium size 4% yards of material 21 
inches wide, 4 yards 27 inches wide, or 
3% yards 32 inches wide, or 2% yards 
44 inches wide, will be required. The 
pattern No. 3765 is cut in sizes for a 32, 
34, 36, 38 and 40-inch bust measure; 
price 10 cents from this office. Shaped 
and tucked flounces not alone hold the 
fancy of the hour, they also promise to 
retain their supremacy for many months 
to come. The graceful example illus¬ 
trated combines the favorite points with 
tucks In a way that means a peculiarly 
graceful result and can be relied upon 
to give certain satisfaction. The orig¬ 
inal is made from satin foulard and is 
trimmed with lace insertion, overlaid 
with strips of velvet ribbon; but all silk 
and lightweight woolen materials as 
well as such cotton and linen fabrics as 
batiste, mull, madras, foulardine, lawn, 
dimity and the like are entirely appro¬ 
priate to the design, while the trimming 
can be varied again and again. The 
skirt is cut in seven gores and is snug 
.3776 Seven Gored Skirt, 
22 to 30 in. waist 
and close about the hips, while it flares 
freely and gracefully below the knees. 
The fullness at the back is laid in an 
inserted pleat after the latest accepted 
style. The flounce is circular, with 
groups of tucks arranged to meet each 
alternate point, and is designed to be 
applied over the skirt in the outline 
indicated in the pattern, but, if pre¬ 
ferred, can be cut away beneath and the 
flounce seamed to the pointed edge. To 
cut this skirt for a woman of medium 
size llVz yards of material 21 inches 
wide, 1014 yai-ds 27 inches wide, 10 yards 
32 inches wide or yards 41 inches 
wide will be required. The pattern No. 
3776 is cut in sizes for a 22, 24, 26, 28 
and 30-inch waist measure; price 10 
cents from this office. 
IroMitig Table Linen. 
Many people have difliculty in ironing 
table-linen so that it looks nice, but it 
is really easier to iron it well than ill. 
In the first place the pieces should be 
dampened thoroughly—a small whisk- 
broom makes the best kind of a sprink¬ 
ler—and then rolled very tightly and 
left over night. When the time comes 
to iron them, do not iron them all over, 
as then when they are folded they will 
be dry and springy and the folds will 
not crease well. Fold once, then iron, 
fold again and iron, and so on. In this 
way the article is gone over but once 
and each surface is moist when it is 
ironed, with the result that when the 
work is done the linen is glossy and the 
creases sharply defined. Why do most 
people fold their tablecloths lengthwise? 
It is much less awkward to handle them 
if they are folded across, with the hems 
together. s s. b. r. 
A Bayberry Bag. —During my Au¬ 
tumn walks I like to gather a few hand¬ 
fuls of bayberries. I tie them up in a 
piece of strong cotton cloth to use when 
I am ironing. It is as good as beeswax, 
and it gives out a delicious fragrance 
when rubbed on the hot iron. In iron¬ 
ing starched things the iron is very like¬ 
ly to get rough and sticky. A piece of 
fine sandpaper and this bayberry bag 
will remedy the difficulty very quickly. 
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