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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
April 2'r 
[ Woman and Home 
climbing a sandy way to the feet of the 
aged, so is a wife full of words to a 
From Day to Day. 
HEAVEN’S DISTANT LAMPS. 
We see but dimly through the mists and 
vapors, 
Amid these earthly damps; 
What seem to us but dim, funeral tapers. 
May be Heaven's distant lamps. 
There is no death! What seems so is 
transition; 
This life of mortal breath 
Is but a suburb of the life elysian. 
Whose portal we call death. 
She is not dead—the child of our affection— 
But gone unto that school 
Where she no longer needs our poor pro¬ 
tection, 
And Christ himself doth rule. 
In that great cloister’s stillness and seclu¬ 
sion. 
By guardian angels led. 
Safe from temptation, safe from sin’s pol¬ 
lution 
She lives, whom we call dead. 
Day after day we think what she is doing 
In those bright realms of air; 
Year after year, her tender steps pursuing, 
Behold her grown more fair. 
Thus do we talk with her, and keep un¬ 
broken 
The bond which nature gives. 
Thinking that our remembrance, though 
unspoken. 
May reach her where she lives. 
Not as a child shall we again behold her. 
For when with rapture wild 
In our embraces we again enfold her. 
She will not be a child. 
But a fair maiden in her Father’s mansion. 
Clothed with celestial grace. 
And beautiful with all the soul’s expansion 
Shall we behold her face. 
—Longfellow. 
* 
A GOOD many industrial facts im¬ 
parted by the geographies puzzle the 
young mind, and we can all sympathize 
with the small girl who read in her les¬ 
son that “Yarmouth is celebrated for 
the curing of herrings.” “Oh, how 
funny it must be,” she exclaimed, “to 
see the little sick herrings sitting 
around getting better! ” 
What is said to be the first laundry 
school ever established has been fitted 
up by the League for Social Service in 
New York City. The women employed 
are required to take a course of training 
in different branches of the work, being 
paid while learning. The idea of the 
League is to provide a place where wo¬ 
men may secure training that will en¬ 
able them to procure self-sustaining em¬ 
ployment. In all cities there appears to 
be a scarcity of competent laundresses, 
especially of those able to do tine iron¬ 
ing or to wash flannels, and training in 
such lines is much needed. 
• 
One of the newest Spring styles in 
neckwear is a tie of grass linen in its 
natural ecru shade, having a narrow 
hemstitched border of contrasting color. 
The tie is three or four inches wide and 
a yard long; it is put around the neck 
once and tied in a little bow, or ar¬ 
ranged like an Ascot. Batiste sailor 
collars or revers seem to be as popular 
with Spring jackets as last year, some 
being simply hemstitched and tucked, 
others inset with lace or embroidery. 
They are a handsome addition to an 
Eton jacket, and are especially used on 
the little silk Etons so fashionable. 
* 
An Alsatian proverb says that, to 
make a durable pair of shoes one should 
use for their sole the tongue of a wo¬ 
man, since it is the one substance that 
never wears out. There is nothing new 
under the sun, and such gibes at femin¬ 
ine loquacity were old when Solomon 
added his testimony to them. Most of 
us have more reason to watch the qual¬ 
ity than the quantity of what we say. 
It is the woman who talks perpetually 
of trivial and uninteresting matters of 
whom the sage spoke when he said; “As 
quiet man.’’__ 
The Rural Patterus. 
Box-pleated frocks for little girls are 
both fashionable and becoming, and the 
model illustrated shows the popular 
long French waist. The original is 
made of linen duck in pale blue and is 
trimmed with white needlework edging 
and insertion, but piqu6, lightweight 
linen, madras and all similar washable 
fabrics are eminently appropriate, while 
3780 Girl’s Box Plaited Dress, 
4 to 12 years. 
cashmeres, henriettas and the like make 
most admirable materials for cooler 
weather wear. The fronts and back are 
lad in two straight box-pleats that ex¬ 
tend from the shoulders to the edge of 
the skirt, being stitched on their under¬ 
folds to the belt line and falling free 
below. The stylish adjustment is ac¬ 
complished by shoulder and under-arm 
seams only, slight fullness being gath¬ 
ered under the belt and stitched to po¬ 
sition. The fronts are cut away at the 
top and closed in double-breasted style, 
the closing below the belt being invisi¬ 
bly accomplished, that above by means 
of pearl buttons and buttonholes. At 
the neck is a big sailor collar, beneath 
which the shield of embroidery is at¬ 
tached. The sleeves are in bishop style 
with narrow cuffs, which match the 
standing collar. At the waist is a belt 
that passes through straps at the under¬ 
arm seams which serve to hold it in 
place. To cut this gown for a girl of 
eight years of age four yards of ma¬ 
terial 32 inches wide or 3% yards 44 
inches wide will be required. The pat¬ 
tern No. 3780 is cut in sizes for girls 4, 
6, 8, 10 and 12 years of age; price 10 
cents from this office. 
The shirt waist shown is a popular 
model in the new Summer garments. 
The smart model shown is made of 
white lawn with revers of all-over tuck¬ 
ing, while shield, collar and cuffs are of 
fine embroidery; but the same design 
is available for silk and woolen ma¬ 
terials and for all the range of cotton 
and linen stuffs. In the new shirt waist 
flannels woven with silk stripes it is ad¬ 
mirable combined with taffeta; made 
from albatross it is eminently satisfac¬ 
tory and when unlined and made from 
batiste, madras, Swiss muslin, dimity 
and the like, it is an ideal Summer bod¬ 
ice. The foundation lining (which in 
this instance is omitted) closes at the 
center front. On it are arranged the 
back, the full fronts and the shield— 
this last being attached at the right side 
and hooked into place at the left, while 
the waist closes at the center, but sep¬ 
arately from the lining. The fronts are 
extended, rolled back and faced to form 
the revers. The sleeves are in bishop 
style with narrow cuffs of lace. At the 
neck is a stock collar that closes invis¬ 
ibly at the center back. When the lin¬ 
ing is omitted the shield is joined to the 
stock collar only, and attached to the 
fronts, under revers, permanently on 
the right and buttoned under the left. 
To cut this waist for a woman of me¬ 
dium size, 31^ yards of material 21 
inches wide, 2% yards 27 inches wide, 2 
yards 32 inches wide or 1% yard 44 
inches wide will be required, with % 
yard of all-over lace, % yard of silk for 
revers, one yard of lace edging and % 
yard of insertion to trim as illustrated. 
The pattern No. 3784 is cut in sizes for 
a 32, 34, 36, 38, 40 and 42-inch bust mea¬ 
sure; price 10 cents from this office. 
Dr. Norton^s Prescription. 
“It wa’n’t the first time that Dr. Nor¬ 
ton and I had been on a case together, 
but I don’t know’s we ever had one end 
in matrimony, the way this one did. 
“No, I didn’t do any nursing, this 
time. In fact, the Ellsworth sisters did 
n’t know I had anything to do with it, 
except just to send the doctor there. 
“I was in their house one day, and 
they was telling me how ailing and mis¬ 
erable they felt all the time. All at 
once I says, as though I’d only just 
thought of it, ‘Why don’t you try Dr. 
Norton? I’m most sure he’d cure you, 
and I know he wouldn’t be exorbitant 
in his charges.’ And then I went on to 
tell of the folks he’d cured. They 
thought it over some and guessed may¬ 
be they’d try him. 
“ ‘Don’t you want me to send him 
over?’ I says. ‘He goes by quite often, 
and I’ll tell him next time I see him if 
you want I should.’ 
“They said yes, I might send him, if 
I’d be so good. That was what I want¬ 
ed, for I knew if I left it to them they’d 
keep neglecting it and would never have 
him. 
“Well, it was a day or two later that 
3784 Shirt Waist, 
32 to 42 in. bust. 
I see Dr. Norton going by. I knocked on 
the window and he drove up into the 
yard and hitched his horse to the elm 
tree. 
“Now we’d always been acquainted 
and we understood each other, so when 
he come in that day he looked at me 
and then he says, ‘Well, Aunt Asenath, 
what have you got on your mind now?’ 
and he settled down in his favorite chair 
real contented like. 
“ ‘The Ellsworth sisters want you to 
call there,’ I says. 
“ ‘I suppose that means that you want 
them to want me to,’ he says, laughing. 
“I don’t know’s it makes any particu¬ 
lar difference what you s’pose,’ I says. 
‘It ought to be enough that you are 
wanted at the Ellsworths.’ 
“ ‘Any of them sick?’ he says. 
“ ‘No more than common,’ I says, ‘but 
you know they ain’t none of ’em well, 
ever. I don’t s’pose you’ll take any ad¬ 
vice from an old friend, but I’ll tell you 
just what is the matter with ’em. They 
’re afraid as death of fresh air, and they 
don’t have enough to do, and three wo¬ 
men, so they don’t bother to cook much 
and so they live on baker’s stuff mostly.’ 
“The doctor sat for awhile without 
speaking, then he got up and put on his 
overcoat. 
“ ‘It is not good for woman to be 
alone. Good-bye, Aunt Asenath.’ That 
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at a great crisis in their lives. 
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