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June 22 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
From Lay to Day. 
THE OLD MAN’S VIEWS. 
Back there In the old days when ’pendicitls 
wasn’t known, 
Feller’d git to feelln’ bad, an’ git kind o’ 
out o’ tone, 
“Doc” ud waltz right in an’ say: “Got a 
fever? Had a chill? 
Well, this weather’s kind o’ bad! Rest 
awhile an’ take a pill! 
Be all right to-morrow, Joe!” Stop an’ 
joke some with the kid. 
You’d be out the next day, sir, ploughin’ 
like you never did! 
Feller gits a chill to-day—Ge-mu-nee! The 
doctor comes. 
Stands an’ feels your pulse an’ then shakes 
his head an’ haws and hums: 
“Gravest symptoms—system is thoroughly 
run down, I fear; 
Sorry, sir, but there’s some signs of appen¬ 
dicitis here! 
See you in a day or so!” Then a feller lays 
in bed. 
An’ appendicitis comes from the worry in 
his head! 
That’s the way it seems to me—science is 
a mighty thing. 
But when ignorance Is bliss, let’s be ig¬ 
norant, by jing! 
—Indianapolis Sun. 
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Nickels worn smooth by much hand¬ 
ling are recommended to remove paint 
spots from glass. The spots can be 
scraped away without any risk of 
scratching the glass. 
* 
A CEREAL kitchen at the Pan-Ameri¬ 
can Exposition will be under the man¬ 
agement of Miss Emma C. Sickles, sec¬ 
retary of the National Pure Food Asso¬ 
ciation. All sorts of cereal foods wi.l 
be offered at the kitchen, and demon¬ 
strations of their proper cooking wi 1 
be given. 
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An Ohio correspondent advises the 
following mode of preparing prunes, in¬ 
stead of the ordinary boiling: “Wash 
the prunes, and pour over them enough 
boiling water to cover. iStir occasional¬ 
ly. Serve in 12 or more hours without 
or with sugar. I use no sugar. These 
are better than any cooked prunes I 
have ever eaten.” 
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One of our friends has developed a 
new plan—new, at least, to us—of rais¬ 
ing money for a charitable object. It is 
called the calendar plan, and is as fol¬ 
lows: The organizer is called the year. 
She appoints 12 persons as months; 
each month selects four weeks, and each 
week seven days. Each person describ¬ 
ed as a day promises to pay a stated 
sum—it need be but one or two or thi-ee 
cents—every week, handing this over 
to the person who is her week. The 
week keeps track of her days, and hands 
the money over to her month, who in 
turn reports to the year. This plan is 
free from the endless exasperation of 
the endless chain, but like a sum in 
arithmetical progression, it mounts up 
to a very respectable sum. The ac¬ 
counts can be turned in monthly, the 
weeks being responsible in keeping the 
days from getting into arrears, and the 
responsibility is so divided that it does 
not fall too heavily upon anyone. 
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Women’s shoes show some differences 
in shape this year, one of the most no¬ 
ticeable changes being the gradual adop¬ 
tion of the Cuban or military heel. The 
Cuban heel is straight at the back, and 
does not taper from shoe to ground, be¬ 
ing of about the same size from top to 
bottom. It is not very high, yet it looks 
high. The military heel is like the Cu¬ 
ban, but is a little straighter and a little 
higher. It was hard to grow used to 
these straight heels at first; now that 
we are accustomed to them, the curved 
heels look old-fashioned. Among low 
shoes for Summer wear the Priscilla is 
the newest; it is the counterpart of 
those worn by Puritan maidens. It has 
a high tongue upon the outside, fasten¬ 
ing under a broad buckle, and rather 
high square heels. It is a very becom¬ 
ing shoe. Pigskin shoes are offered for 
golf and athletic wear, in place of rus¬ 
set leather; they are rather light in 
color, and usually stitched in black. 
While the toes of this season’s shoes are 
not so strongly rounded as last year, the 
whole shoe is broader. Perhaps we are 
3819 Woman’s Cape 
34, 38 and 42 in. bust. 
ah growing more sensible as regards our 
shoes; certainly the average shoe sales¬ 
man now does not hesitate to tell his 
customer if she is trying to wear a size 
too small, and the adoption by manufac¬ 
turers of the so-called French numbers 
prevents the buyer from having any 
clear knowledge of her size. Such a 
number as A-44597, or some similar mys¬ 
tery may convey an idea to the shoe 
man, but certainly not to the customer. 
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A Philadelphia doctor, in a paper 
recently read before a medical society, 
said: “I attribute the enormous in¬ 
crease of appendicitis among women to 
golf, cricket, the bicycle and other out¬ 
door sports, which at times subject them 
to prolonged physical exertion and in¬ 
clement weather.” This view is evident¬ 
ly different from that of the old man 
who thinks this disease comes from the 
worry about it. The change produced 
by the modern woman’s athletic tastes 
was well expressed by an old farmer in 
Maine, who gave some Summer visitors 
permission to use his pasture land as 
golf links. The old hired man, scandal¬ 
ized by the sight of tall, athletic girls in 
scarlet coats, armed with iron-hoofed 
clubs, striding over the fields, one day 
reported to his master: 
“Them girls in the pasture scare our 
cows!” 
The farmer scratched his head. 
“Hiram,” came his leisurely answer, 
“times is changed since we was young. 
Used to be the cows scared the girls!” 
The Rural Patterns. 
The Directoire cape figured is of black 
taffeta lined with white satin, trimmed 
with heavy cream lace, and with ties of 
white chiffon. The under or foundation 
cape is dart-fitted and extends well over 
the shoulders and is trimmed with the 
four tiny bias frills. The outer cape is 
shorter and plain about the edge and is 
trimmed with the lace applique only; 
while the big revers turn back and are 
faced with the lace and edged with a 
single frill. At the neck is a deep turn¬ 
over collar that meets the revers to 
which the chiffon ties are attached. If 
a plainer effect is desired the outer cape 
can be omitted, the under alone made 
from either silk or cloth, tailor-stitched, 
or trimmed as simply or as elaborately 
as one may choose. To cut this cape for 
a woman of medium size 2% yards 21 
inches wide or 1^/4 yard 50 inches wide 
will be required with 1% yard of lace 
appliqu6, % yard of all-over lace, eight 
yards of ruffling two inches wide, one 
yard IVz inch wide for revers and 1% 
yard chiffon for ties to trim as illus¬ 
trated. The pattern No. 3819 is cut in 
three sizes, large, medium and small; 
price 10 cents from this oflice. 
The tucked skirt shown is of blue 
bargge trimmed with cream guipure. 
The skirt is circular in shape and is 
tucked on parallel lines to the indicated 
point, where they cease and the material 
falls free to give the flounce effect. To 
cut this skirt for a woman of medium 
size 9iy4 yards of material 21 inches 
wide, stven yards 27 inches wiue, 6% 
yards 32 inches wide, or 4^/^ yards 44 
inches wide will be required. The pat¬ 
tern No. '3811 is cut in sizes for a 22, 
24, 26, 28 and 30-inch waist measure; 
price 10 cents from this office. 
Household Expenses. 
Very interesting and suggestive are 
the accounts in a recent issue under this 
head. 1 have studied the last one—a 
family of two grown-up daughters with 
mother and father, whose food, firewood, 
coal and clothing amounted to Jf334.19 
for one year. The insurance and taxes 
are not in the account, nor the amount 
of money given to charity. Let us guess 
that these would swell the amount of 
expenses to $4oo a year for the four. We 
will count the son out, as earning his 
own living. Here is a family dwelling 
in a home, owned, with six acres of land, 
most all down in grass. There is no evi¬ 
dence that the land brings in anything. 
They pay out money for milk. Where 
are the expenses for butter? Where are 
the traveling expenses of these girls or 
their parents? Where are the expenses 
for books or periodicals? It only cost 
$37 for the four for clothing in a year; 
they did not weave the cloth, either. Yet 
they say “We manage to look as well as 
people who buy new clothes continual¬ 
ly.” That may seem so to them, if they 
never go out far and see how others 
dress. How would the old gentleman feel 
if he had a tailor measure him properly 
and clothe him with a pair of trousers 
costing $1®? I think he would feel live¬ 
ly and spruce, and it might ease up his 
lameness some. Well, this is no joke, 
I assure you, when you face this whole 
3811 Tucked Circular Skirt, 
22 to 30 in. waist 
problem. There are two sides. This 
family requires $10,000 at interest at 
four per cent to get this income. I am 
not saying they have, but the facts re¬ 
quire it. Now that $10,000, in order to 
bring them an income, is used by men 
who wear fine clothes, who travel, are 
well informed and see much life. Maybe 
it might be in the hands of some other 
poor farmer who stints, while his wife 
slaves, and they see nothing but a 
grind. Alas! we have need to check 
such tendencies and lift up men to en¬ 
joy life. Or it might be in various kinds 
of business, either of making clothes or 
shoes, or railroads, or some occupation 
which calls for activity and intelligence 
and the enjoyment of a larger and var¬ 
ied life and work. 
Now which would you rather be, the 
ones who have to earn that interest, or 
live back, like them out of sight, and 
out of the enjoyment of a larger life? 
Nine out of ten will answer: “Give me 
the chance to labor and enjoy life, and 
let those who want to cramp their lives 
and that of their children, do so.” For, 
say they, the tendency of the times is 
right which makes it a duty to spend 
money, to use good clothing, live com¬ 
fortably, and keep persons—all of us— 
in comfortable labor. We do not mean 
sweatshop labor, but is not stinting in 
the country as bad as sweatshop labor 
in the city? Both are wrong and con¬ 
demned by the common sense of your 
children, who believe it proper to see and 
enjoy life since the steam of the kettle 
has got out from under the lid, and can 
carry us thousands of miles. Rely upon 
it, our children do not want to hang 
around a home just to keep the tea¬ 
kettle boiling; no, not in these times. 
You have to dress up the boys if you 
want to keep them on the farm. Listen 
to what the boy says, when once well 
out from the home on the farm—that is, 
some farms, where stinting is the rule: 
“Kind as Mother is, she cannot see 
clearly when she says her make of 
clothes fit and are good enough for me. 
I know they do not as soon as I get into 
town. And I know I deserve good 
clothes when I earn them by my labor. 
But as to Father, he allowed her to 
make his clothes, he was gentle, liked 
them roomy—easy to take off and put 
on Kind, dear old man, but they 
bagged, not in the knees only, but aii 
over him. And I wonder if that was 
the reason he hid from the activity of 
life. Ah! who knows? I will draw a 
veil over this and I only say it to my¬ 
self.” JAY. 
Some Seasonable Recipes. 
We are using dried Gravensteins for 
pies, which leave nothing to be desired 
as to quality. A visitor asked if those 
were cherry pies; and perhaps my wife’s 
original rule for this and other things 
may be appreciated. A large handful of 
dried apples is cooked quickly in a tight¬ 
ly-covered granite basin in a little less 
than a quart of water. Six halves of 
dried apricots are cut fine and cooked in 
very little water. Fill in the apple, then 
the apricot, together with water they 
were cooked in; add a small cupful of 
sugar, and nutmeg. 
Here is a lemon pie, in eating which 
a visitor casually remarked, with due 
praise, that he never ate pie plant. Two 
cupfuls of rhubarb, chopped and scald¬ 
ed, preferaoly the stalks whose leaves 
are still crinkly. This water is turned off. 
To the rhubarb is added a cupful of 
sugar, tablespoonful of flour, a beaten 
egg. Bake in single crust, and cover 
with beaten white of egg when cold. 
The following rule for canning is a 
decided improvement upon pineapple 
alone, and the rhubarb taste disappears. 
Chop and cook equal parts of pineapple 
and rhubarb, and add a cupful of sugar 
for each pint jar. 
This is for chicken fritters no guest 
will consider that he fritters away his 
time upon. Two cupfuls chopped cooked 
chicken meat, one cupful strained to¬ 
mato, three rolled crackers, one-half 
cupful of chicken broth, a pinch of salt, 
a grasp of black pepper and a speck of 
red pepper. Make into cakes and fry. 
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