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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
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[ Woman and Home ^ 
From Day to Day. 
"HANKERIN’.” 
May In the East! and the apple tree.s 
White with bloom and alive with beea! 
Hummin’ of bees and the robin's sontj 
Helpin’ the Springtime hymn along! 
Oh, ’pears to me 1 can hear the "zoom” 
Of the busy wings In the apple bloom: 
And the bumblebee with his blundering 
boom 
In the green of the fuzzy wilier! 
Spring comes ’round; and the breath o’ 
May, 
Stlrrin’ the locks on my temples gray, 
Brings me sounds from the old liome- 
stead— 
Wakenin’ thrills that 1 thought was 
dead !— 
Sounds that ring in the 1 lousier brain. 
Echoing over and over again. 
The shriek of the quail from the locust 
lane. 
An’ the click of the old corn planter! 
May In the East! I know the best 
And sunniest land Is the G<dden West; 
But ’long at the end o’ the month o’ 
May- 
Just when it’s visitin’ June— someway. 
There's something stirs in my ole warm 
blood 
An’ makes it flow in a homesick flood. 
With a hankerin’ sigh for the apple bloom; 
For the robin’s song and the droning 
“zoom 
The buzzln’ o’ wings and the blundering 
boom 
In the green o’ the fuzzy wilier! 
L’ENVOI. 
For after all it’s the way of all 
To hear at times the homeland’s call; 
The red deer, warm in the sunny vale. 
Longs at times for the sleet and hail; 
For the dead-gray rocks on the cheerless 
peak: 
The stinging .snow and the winds that 
shriek 
Through the deep crevasse in the storm- 
cloud gloam— 
The scenes and haunts thjit he lirst called 
home! 
Oo North—go South, or East, or West— 
it’s the old home place you loved the best! 
—L. O. Reese in San Francisco Bulletin. 
4e 
A NEW neck wrap for a windy Summer 
day is a boa of taffeta with fringed-out 
edges. It is seen in all plain colors, and 
also in changeable silk. It is pretty and 
becoming, though of very little practical 
use. 
* 
Wahiiabi.k white rugs are one of the 
new ideas for Summer cottages. They 
are merely rag carpet, made from white 
cotton or linen rags. They are used 
in Summer bedrooms, or on the veranda. 
Sometimes a few strips of color are add¬ 
ed across the ends. They are easily 
washed and look very dainty. 
• 
Dubino June old-time housewives 
used to collect and dry the leaves and 
stems of pipsissewa or prince’s pine, 
which, made into a tea, was regarded 
as a valuable tonic, or given for disor¬ 
ders of the digestion. It is a useful ad¬ 
dition to homemade root beer. The In¬ 
dians used to regard the pipsessewa as 
possessing marvelous powers of healing, 
and colonial housekeepers derived their 
faith In the herb from the aborigines. 
• 
A <Jiiu. who has collected a great 
many pretty sketches in black and white, 
most of them being from high-class 
magazines, devised an original manner 
of mounting them to decorate a corner 
of her own room. She secured some large 
sheets of gray paper, cut it into pieces 
large enough to form mats for her pic¬ 
tures, having three-inch margins. The 
pictures were then laid on the mats 
and fastened by large drops of red or 
black sealing wax, about the size of 
fifty-cent pieces. The wax was pressed 
down by a monogram seal, but this is 
immaterial. The number of seals and 
their position were varied as much as 
possible; sometimes one at each cor¬ 
ner, sometimes less. When grouped on 
a wall together the effect was very good. 
A similar way of mounting may be used 
when photographs or engravings are ar¬ 
ranged without frames upon a strip of 
cartridge paper stretched along the wall. 
A strip of dull green or gray, the full 
width of the cartridge paper, stretched 
along the wall above a divan, bearing a 
collection of pictures allixed with black 
or red seals, makes a picturesque cozy 
corner arrangement. 
* 
A sMALi. girl who had been visiting 
her grandparents in the country was 
asked how she had enjoyed her visit. 
“Oh, pretty well,” she replied, “but I’d 
3836 Girl’s Costume,-, 
6 to 12 years. 
like the country better if it was here in 
town.” She is not alone in her view; 
a good many lonely women will echo 
the opinion. The best way to make 
country life interesting is to put some 
interest into it. If our life is narrowed 
down to one small country community 
there is little wisdom in deciding that 
real interests can only lie outside it. 
* 
Amono Summer underwear we see 
shirt waist corset covers, which differ 
from the ordinary make in having three 
frills, about three inches deep, put one 
below the other across the front. They 
are intended for flat-chested women, to 
whom a thin shirt waist is an unkind 
revelation, and are a decided improve¬ 
ment upon the various mechanical de¬ 
ceits offered each Summer for the same 
purpose. The shirt waist is a leveler of 
feminine beauty, for its simplicity of 
make does not permit the various dis¬ 
guises of outline permitted by an elab¬ 
orately trimmed bodice. Whereas a 
good dressmaker can bring any figure 
not absolutely deformed into comeli¬ 
ness of some sort, if allowed full lati¬ 
tude in cut and trimmings, the shirt 
waist does not iiermit these artifices, 
and is often most unkind in its revela¬ 
tions, like the bathing suit. Each year 
we notice an extensive crop of belts and 
fastenings for the purpose of bolding 
the shirt waist in place. We have al¬ 
ways believed this gear to be invented 
by men, to whom feminine apparel is a 
mystery, but, after meeting a dozen 
women in each block whose shirt waists 
always hike away from their belts, and 
whose plackets invariably gape hun¬ 
grily open, we don’t wonder that an 
inventive man locks himself up in a 
machine shop, and devises a combina¬ 
tion vise and shafting, warranted to 
hold the most vociferous wardrobe to¬ 
gether. One style offered last year sug¬ 
gested that steel corset with immovable 
hasps, invented by Catherine de Medici, 
which was warranted to reduce the 
most obstinate waist to 13 inches. Wo¬ 
men look admiringly at these contriv¬ 
ances—sometimes even buy them—and 
then go on pinning themselves together 
in the same old way. 
The Rural Patterns. 
The girl’s dress shown has a fitted lin¬ 
ing that closes at the center front. On 
it are arranged the full front and the 
waist, which is tucked and joined to a 
square yoke and finished with a novel 
and becoming color. The sleeves in¬ 
clude snug upper portions, with the soft 
cufljs. The skirt is slightly circular, 
with a flounce at the lower edge, and is 
tucked to form a hip yoke, but is laid 
in inverted plaits at the back. To cut 
this costume for a girl eight years of 
age, yards of material 21 inches 
wide, iVz yards 32 inches wide, or 3% 
yards 44 inches wide, will be required, 
with one yard 21 inches wide for chem¬ 
isette and undersleeves, iVz yards of in¬ 
sertion and y 4 , yard of all-over lace for 
collar, to trim as illustrated. The pat¬ 
tern 3830 is cut in sizes for girls 6, 8, 
10 and 12 years of age; price 10 cents. 
The waist No. 3792 is made over a 
fitted lining which closes at the center 
front, but when washable stuffs are 
used the lining can be omitted. The 
chemisette is attached to the right side 
of the lining, and hooked on to the left, 
or when the waist is unlined, is stitched 
to the right side beneath the collar 
and hooked on to the left, other¬ 
wise there is little difference in the 
method of making. When lined the 
fronts and back are arranged upon the 
foundation before the shoulder and un¬ 
der-arm seams are closed, and the gath¬ 
ers are attached at the waist-line; when 
unlined the fullness at the waist is 
.simj)Iy stayed, or tapes are inserted in 
a casing by means of which it can be 
drawn up. In either rase the sailor col¬ 
lar finishes the low neck, the stock is 
attached to the chemisette. The sleeves 
are in bishop style, finished with pointed 
cuffs that lap over from the seam. To 
make this waist for a woman of medium 
size, 314 yards of material 21 inches wide, 
2% yards 27 inches wide, 2 yards 32 
inches wide or I 14 yard 44 inches wide, 
will be required, with 1 yard 18 inches 
wide for the collar, shield stock collar. 
Sliirl WiiiHt. !(, 
JZ to 4‘2 ill, liUHt 
The patlern 3792 is cut in sizes for a 
32, 34, 30, 38, 40 and 42-inch bust meas¬ 
ure; iirice 10 cents. 
The child’s long-waisted petticoat is 
meant for wear with the long-waisted 
frocks now in vogue. The original is of 
nainsook with trimming of needlework, 
but linen cambric and long cloth are all 
used, and simple strong lace can be sub¬ 
stituted as trimming when preferred. 
'I'he body poi’tion is fitted smoothly and 
accurately, the shaping being accom¬ 
plished by means of shoulder and under¬ 
arm seams. The skirt is simply full, 
gathered at the upper edge, where it is 
seamed to the long body. To cut this 
petticoat for a child six years of age, 
2^^ yards of material 30 inches wide, 
with 3% yards of needlework for frill 
and 1'% yard of narrow ruffing will bo 
required. The pattern 3837 is cut in 
sizes for children 2, 4, 0, 8 and 10 years 
of age; price 10 cents. 
A MAN should choose for a wife only 
such a woman as he would choose for 
a friend, were she a man.—Joubert. 
What She Looked For. 
“Why do I look so sorrowful? As long 
as you’ve asked me, Mary, Tm just going 
to tell you. 1 look that way because 1 
am sorry. Every time 1 see you lately 
1 feel the same way, and it gives me the 
blues until I see somebody else or get 
to thinking of something different. 
“Not very complimentary? No, it 
ain’t; but you asked me, and I’m going 
to show you if I can just how things are. 
It ain’t right for you to go around mak¬ 
ing everybody unhappy, and I don’t 
think you’d do it if you realized. We’ve 
been good friends ever since we’ve 
known each other, and 1 hope you'll lis¬ 
ten to what I say and not get out of pa¬ 
tience with an old lady that speaks 
pretty plain sometimes, but means well 
by you. 
“It’s going on towards a year now 
since I began to notice a difference. 
What it was started you, I don’t know, 
but the first time I noticed it you was 
talking dretful hard about one of your 
neighbors. I tried to put in a good word 
for her, but no, you wouldn’t listen. 
You couldn’t have it that there was 
anything good about her. 
“Well, ever since then you have been 
getting worse and worse. Now, take 
this afternoon: You haven’t said any¬ 
thing good about anybody, and if you 
had to admit that some of them might 
not be all had, you admitted it grudg¬ 
ingly, as if it made you miserable. If 
you get hold of any bit of scandal, i( 
seems to please you more than anything 
you could find. It is an awful bad thing 
for you. You ain’t really happy, as you 
lujed to be, and you make everyone you 
see more or less unhappy, too. 
“What is that? You don’t tell any¬ 
thing but what’s true? I don’t s’pose 
you meant to, but you’ve told me lots 
of things that 1 know wa’n’t so. You 
see, this habit you’ve got into is spoil¬ 
ing your sense of truth. You needn’t 
look so offended. 1 don’t go ’round 
telling folks you’re a liar. If I’d got 
into the same habit >ou have, you might 
be worried, but I haven’t talked like thi.s 
to anyone but you. 
“Did you ever have any trouble with 
youi eyes and go to an optician to have 
’em examined? Eor one thing, he has 
you look at some lines like the sjiokes 
of a wheel and tell which ones look 
blackest and which ones look faint. 
Maybe the iij) and down ones you can 
see plain and the crossways ones you 
can’t hardly see at all. Well, there’s some 
trouble with you. You’ve got so you see 
the mean, bad traits of human nature 
awful plain and black, but the good and 
loving ones you can’t hardly make out 
at all. If I could fix it so you’d look at 
things just the other way, why. I’d feel 
jiiouder ’n ’s though I was tlie best 
optician in Boston. It’s different from 
what ’twould be if ’twa.s your eyes, 
though, because it’s your own fault that 
you’ve got into this way, and it’s only 
yourself that can get you out of it. 
"We fill hill’ whai wo look loi in this 
world. When you are riding along to 
the village you can hear the birds sing¬ 
ing, and you can look at the pretty trees 
