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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
Aiigiist ;*4 
[ Woman and Home \ 
From Day to Day. 
A CHEERFUL BROTHER. 
Springtime linds me happy, Summer makes 
me sing; 
Pailtime is so glorious, I hear the joy bells 
ring! 
Winter—I jest love it, with fires blazin’ 
free; 
Every blessed season is packed with sweets 
fer me! 
Great old world. I tell you; don’t care what 
they say. 
With the frosts of Winter, with the flowers 
of May. 
Ain’t it doin’ splendid? Anyone can see 
Every cup is brimmin’ with joy fer you 
an’ me! 
Great old world in darkness—great old 
world in day; 
Reap its happy harvests, walk its happy 
way! 
Lots more light than shadow—light a- 
fallin’ free. 
An’ all the bloom an’ beauty an’ light fer 
you an’ me! 
—F. L. Stanton in Atlanta Constitutlen. 
* 
Odd little needle books recently seen 
were in the form of square soda crack¬ 
ers, made of silk, with realistic pin¬ 
pricks, opening to show flannel leaves. 
The same shape has beeoi a popular 
one in scent sabhets. 
* 
New flannel waists for Fall wear 
show the buttoned back almost entire¬ 
ly. The effect is pretty, and it permits 
effects in trimming impossible other¬ 
wise. If well fitting, however, it is quite 
impossible for a woman to get into one 
of these without assistance, since they 
are harder to button than the thin wasli 
waists. Very brilliant colors are seen in 
the flannel waists, and the old hunter’s 
green is to be a favorite, under the new 
name of chasseur. National blue, golf 
red, myrtle and Nile green are standard 
shades. 
* 
White Panama in a masculine shape 
is this season’s contribution to the out¬ 
ing hats. They are still rather uncom¬ 
mon, hut decidedly fashionable; sraa'l- 
er than the men’s hats, but following 
their general outlines. The only trim¬ 
ming is a velvet band inch wide, 
sometimes with a little knot or rosette 
and occasionally with a single quill 
passing through it. As a rule, the 
band is black; sometimes, however, iC 
is moss green or dark blue. The effect 
of the dark velvet on the white Panama 
is very striking. 
A HOMEEY philosopher observes that 
when a merchant is injured by the 
competition of a rival, he doesn’t pull 
down the blinds and sulk; he puts 
some new attraction in the window, 
and there is a very large moral in this 
rule of business. The girl or woman 
who, in the face of social disappoint¬ 
ments, or even gi’eater sorrows, pulls 
down the blinds, and advertises her 
griefs and cares, is not only adding to 
the burdens of an overworked world, 
but is making hei’self less able to bear 
the everyday trials that come to all. 
* 
Judging from the display made al¬ 
ready, the coming season is to be one 
of plumes and made feathers. Fall 
hats, both of straw and felt, often have 
two long plumes or breasts encircling 
them, next in preference to this being 
a big feather pompon. Large round 
black hats have two long white plumes 
around the crown, quite near the edge 
of the brim, with a black velvet knot 
in the center. Combinations of black 
and white lead in the midseason mil¬ 
linery. It is possible now to buy liquid 
hat dyes, for the renovation of straw 
hats; the dye, which may be obtained 
in various colors, is applied with a 
small brush. It is a decided improve¬ 
ment over shoe polish, which used to 
be our resource when black straw hats 
grew dull and dusty. 
* 
Ice cream sandwiches form a new 
dessert. A slice of well-frozen cream 
is placed between two wafers, the sand¬ 
wich wrapped in parchment paper, and 
put back in the freezer until needed. 
Perhaps the caterer is indebted to the 
street vender of similar delicacies for 
the idea. There is a sidewalk fruit 
stand near The R. N.-Y. where, for 
the sum of two cenits, the wayfarer 
may be supplied with a frosty slab of 
ice cream, very aniline as to com- 
32 to 40 bust. 
plexion, laid between two little wafers. 
The reason for supplying ice cream in 
this way is its economy; it does away 
with the necessity for dishes. Spoons 
are always a superfluity to the streeit 
vender and his customer. 
* 
One of the saddest examples of 
wasted effort in the world is the wo¬ 
man who has expended hours and 
hours every year in curling her hair 
with crimpers and kid rollers and 
heated irons, and all the other myster¬ 
ious implements of torture designed to 
that end, only to discover, in a mo¬ 
ment of despair, thait she looks better 
in every way when her silken locks 
are allowed to remain straight. It is 
one of life’s mysteries that so many 
boys, to whom curls are a matter of 
derision, should inherit a topknot full 
of waves and crinkles, while their suf¬ 
fering sistere may wear a chevelure 
with about as much natural curl as a 
piece of telegraph wire. Fortune’s 
gifts are distributed very unevenly; 
as one ungrammatical philosopher 
says, “them that has gits.’’ 
The Rural Patterns. 
The blouse shown with sailor col’.ar 
has a foundation, or fitted lining, clos¬ 
ing at the center front. On it are ar¬ 
ranged the various parts of the blouse 
proper, which closes at the left side be¬ 
neath the box pleat. The center front 
is tucked in groups for a short distance, 
then allowed to fall free and form soft 
folds. The fronts proper are laid in one 
box pleat at each front edge, but other¬ 
wise are plain. The sailor collar is at¬ 
tached to the blouse, and the shield is 
arranged over the lining. The sleeves 
are in bishop style. When the lining is 
omitted the shield is attached to the 
waist beneath the collar, permanently 
to the right and buttoned to the left; 
and the waist is either gathered at the 
waist line or adjusted by means of 
tapes run through a casing. Otherwise 
there is no difference in the making. To 
cut this blouse for a woman of medium 
size, 414 yards of material 21 inches 
wide, 3% yards 27 inches wide, three 
yards 32 inches wide, or 2^/4 yards 44 
inches wide, will be required, with % 
yard of all-over lace. The pattern No. 
3882 is cut in sizes for a 32, 34, 36, 38 
and 40-inch bust measure; price 10 
cents from this office. 
The five-gored skirt has the great ad¬ 
vantage of never going out of style. 
Slight variations there may be and de¬ 
tails may require to be changed, but the 
general cut remains. The model illus¬ 
trated is made with stitched seams and 
includes the latest novelty in the l.and 
flounce that completes the lower edge. 
The original is of gray satin-faced cloth, 
but all skirt materials are suitable, che¬ 
viot, serge, homespun and similar 
woolen fabrics as well as the heavy 
ducks and linens that are made on tail¬ 
ored lines. The front gore is narrow 
and gives the desired tapering effect to 
the figure. The wider side gores are 
smoothly fitted with hip darts and the 
fullness at the back is laid in an invert¬ 
ed pleat. The flounce is finished with 
rows of machine stitching. To cut this 
skirt for a woman of medium size eight’ 
yards of material 32 inches wide, 514 
yards 44 inches wide or five yards 50 
inches wide will he required. The pat¬ 
tern No. 3788 is cut in sizes for a 22, 24, 
26, 28, 30 and 32-inch waist measure; 
price 10 cents from this office. 
A Busy Life. 
The Cornell Reading Course for Far¬ 
mers’ Wives gives the story of one busy 
farmer’s wife which doubtless could be 
duplicated, in all essentials, by many 
others. Says the heroine of this useful 
life: 
“Two things I have been taught in my 
long farm life: one is, that work never 
kills, and the other is, that we must 
calculate work beforehand in order to 
save steps and do a great amount of 
work. I am 58 years old. Have been on 
a farm all my life until a year ago, 
when we built a new house on one end 
of our farm which opens on a public 
road and retired from farm labor. My 
father was a farmer and a minister of 
the old school, who believed in no sal¬ 
ary, but believed in working for a liv¬ 
ing. I learned to milk when seven years 
old, and always did my share while at 
home. I was sent to school, but at 14 
commenced to teach a district school 
on a third grade license. I soon re¬ 
reived a second and then the first grade. 
I boarded around. I was married at 19, 
and then my farm life began in earnest. 
We always kept a dairy, from 12 to 14 
head. When we were married we did 
not own a foot of land. My husband 
and I bought 30 acres the day after we 
were manned, joining the old home¬ 
stead of his people, with whom we lived. 
Ihey owned 50 acres, but there was a 
mortgage of $350 on that. We took care 
of them until they died, paid the mort¬ 
gage, bought enough more to make us 
200 acres. We had a sugar orchard and 
made from 300 to 500 pounds of sugar 
and a great deal of syrup every year. 
We kept sheep and always worked up 
the wool, spun, wove and made full 
cloth for men’s wear and for flannel 
sheets. We knit our own socks and 
Sow Pansy Seed Now, Won’t Put it WIT. 
Pansies sown in the Fall produce incomparably 
the finest and larffest fiowers of the brightest 
colors. Let no reader miss A. T. Cook’s remark¬ 
able offer on page 587.— Adc. 
stockings. I would always rise in the 
morning at four or half past, Winter 
and Summer, and have built my own 
fires, milked from four to eight cows, 
prepared the breakfast and had it at six. 
Until about 10 years ago we made but¬ 
ter, and since then have sent it to a fac¬ 
tory. I always did my own churning, 
and many are the books of poems, his¬ 
tories, stories and newspapers I have 
read through while churning. 
“I am the mother of eight children, 
five of whom are living. The others 
died when small. The oldest living is 
36 and the youngest is 12. Three of 
them have graduated from high school 
and been a number of terms at an aca¬ 
demy. One has been for five years at 
Cornell University. I have always done 
my own washing and weaving of car¬ 
pets, as I have a large house, and it is 
furnished with rag carpets. I make my 
own garden and have helped rake hay 
and husk corn. One Fall, alone, I 
husked between 500 and 600 bushels. I 
had one daughter and she was at home 
at that time; so I did no housework 
while husking, although I attended to 
the milk and butter, milked, and got 
breakfast. One Summer I piled up 100 
cords of wood and did my own house¬ 
work. You will say there was no c..ll 
for this. We were married the first year 
of the Civil War. In 1863 my husband 
was drafted, paid his $300 and stayed at 
home, ’i’hat had to be met in hard 
times for the farmer. Not many modern 
wives would think they could pull flax, 
cut corn, dig potatoes, and do all things 
on a farm that we used to do. All this 
time I had a hired girl only a year and 
a half. We made our own table linen 
and toweling, spinning and weaving it, 
and our flannel dresses. I have been 
with the sick a great deal, and always 
went to church and Sunday school, and 
attended societies which belonged to the 
church. To-day I can walk a mile or 
more as quickly as anyone. At the pres¬ 
ent time I have two old people to care 
for; one of tnem is 86 and the other is 
83. There are five in our family, and I 
am doing all the work myself, and am 
going to take the teacher to board next 
year. So you see, work does not kill, 
and there must have been some calcula¬ 
tion to save steps. My husband says, 
‘You helped earn and saved more than 
I did.’ The boys many times say. 
‘If it had not been for your pushing and 
helping us to school, we never could 
have done so well.’ All this time I have 
kept up with the general reading of the 
day. I never counted my steps but 
once, and that was when I spun a skein 
of woolen yarn. I went a little over a 
mile.’’ 
As I know more of mankind I expect 
less of them, and am ready to call a 
man a good man upon easier terms than 
I was formerly.—Johnson. 
Distance sometimes endears friend¬ 
ship, and absence sweeteneth it—for 
separation from those we love shows us, 
by the loss, their real value and dear¬ 
ness to us.—Howell. 
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