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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
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To our friends who have not already received It, we are ready to mail 
our NEW CATALOGUE of 
HIGH GLASS SEEDS 
For 1890. 
Containing all tbe Novelties of the Season, both in Vegetable and Flower 
Seeds. 
J.M. Thorburn aCo.JS John Sr NewYork. 
SEEDS 
FOR THE 
SEASON OF 
Among the varieties of VEGETABLE SEEDS we offer In our New Catalogue will be found the following 
Novelties anil Specialties: 
heavens hold splendid solemn meanings; 
and the sunset skies never lack for seers 
and singers: but the sunshine of the com¬ 
mon day is dearer and cheerier than either. 
It has in it one of the enduring things— 
Hope. 
HOME DRESSMAKING. 
PATTY GARTON. 
E VERY woman ought to know how to 
make her own clothes, even if cir¬ 
cumstances do not compel her to do it. A 
woman who has never taken the trouble to 
acquire such knowledge is certainly at a 
great disadvantage; the unexpected always 
happens, and she may at some time suffer 
the greatest inconvenience from the lack 
of just such kuowledge. Now, there is no 
reason why a home-made garment should 
look “home-made.” When an amateur 
garment looks badly made, it is the result 
of two faults: ignorance and carelessness, 
and both may be easily remedied. I do not 
assert that any untaught woman can equal 
a professional dress-maker, but there is no 
reason why a woman of average capacity 
may not do thoroughly good work. The 
greatest requisites are neat sewing, careful 
cutting, and exact measurement. This 
last necessity is oftenest neglected by the 
inexperienced; they are apt to think that 
if the article is not cut just right they can 
make it all right in the hasting. A good 
professional never falls into this error; she 
knows that such inaccuracies are only set 
right at the expense of much time and 
trouble. I used to think that the hardest 
thing in making a frock was to make the 
skirt hang right, but that trial is entirely 
conquered now, because it is always care¬ 
fully measured before being gathered and 
put on the band. 
In the way of patterns, one must begin 
by having that of a good gored skirt and a 
well-fitting basque. One may buy very 
good paper patterns, but it is far more sat¬ 
isfactory to have a basque pattern cut by a 
good dress-maker, so as to secure a perfect 
fit. All figures differ in proportions, and 
the cut pajier patterns, while they may be 
the right bust measurement, vary too much 
for a woman to fit herself without great 
trouble. Ad individual pattern, cut to a 
perfect fit, should be made in paper muslin, 
so that it will not wear out, and a handy 
person can cut any style of basque from it. 
The gored skirt forms the foundation for 
most of the present plain skirts; and it is 
very necessary that it, too, should fit well, 
so as to be just the same length all the way 
round, but the amount of slope varies ac¬ 
cording to the figure of the wearer. Thus, 
a person with very full hips requires a 
deeper slope at the sides than a slimmer 
figure, while the disappearance of reeds and 
bustles lessens the length of the back 
breadth. Measure the length of a well-fit- 
ting skirt, or have some one else measure 
you as you stand, and see that you keep to 
the right length. 
Having seen to your measurements, so 
that cutting and fitting are correct, next 
look to your workmanship, and see that 
you have all the “fixings.” It is impossi¬ 
ble to do good work if you have to use 
makeshifts in the way of linings and so on 
—that is to say if the gown is new. To 
make a nice cloth gown you need four 
sorts of linings. First, double-faced liuing 
for the basque, black on the side next the 
goods, (that is if the material is dark), and 
some fancy color on the side turned out. 
The old-fashioned silesia is little used now ; 
iudeed, a good quality of gray silesia usual¬ 
ly costs more than the double-faced lining. 
The skirt lining consist of a foundation of 
gray muslin, or lining cambric: at the bot¬ 
tom there is a facing of black canvas 12 
inches deep, and over this is a facing six or 
eight inches deep, of black lining alpaca, 
which not only makes the bottom firmer, but 
also repels dust. Of course the bottom is 
finished with braid; the use of the pleated 
braid, which was quite popular, is now on 
the wane. It wears out quite as soon as 
the plain braid, and it is so liable to tear 
off in great lengths whenever a stitch gives 
way. 
Among small furnishings do not forget 
whalebones for the basque; they should be 
put iu every seam. Be sure you buy whale¬ 
bones in the lengths, not those covered 
abominations. They are a snare and a de¬ 
lusion ; they look so easy to put in, but 
they are uot really easier than the old way, 
and instead of being bones they are steels, 
which soon wear holes through the cover¬ 
ings, aud often through the basque too. 
See that the seams are ueatly overcast ; 
then, when they are pressed open, haste ou 
flat narrow bias bauds of .the lining, for 
the casing of the bones. This is done be¬ 
fore the bottom of the basque is faced, and 
the effect is very neat. 
GOLDEN GRAINS. 
S AYS MRS. BEECHER: “Let home 
stand first before all other things! 
No matter how high your ambitions may 
transcend its duties, no matter how far 
your talents or your influence may reach 
beyond its doors, before everything else 
build up a true home ! Be not its slave; 
be its minister! Let it not-be enough that 
it is swept and garnished, that its silver is 
brilliant, that its food is delicious, hut feed 
the love in it, feed the truth in it, feed 
thought and aspiration, feed all charity 
and gentleness in it. Then from its walls 
shall eome forth the true women and the 
true men, who shall together rule and 
bless the land. Is this an overwrought 
picture? We think not. What honor can 
be greater than to found such a Lome ? 
What dignity higher than to reign its un¬ 
disputed and honored mistress ? What is 
the ability to speak from a public platform 
to large audiences, or the wisdom that 
may command a seat on the judge’s bench, 
compared to that which can insure and 
preside over a true home that husband and 
children “ rise and call her blessed ?” To 
be the guiding star, the ruling spirit, in 
such a position, is higher honor than to 
rule an empire. 
Elizabeth Fry gives these six rules of 
conduct: 1. Never lose any time. I do not 
think that lost which is spent in amuse¬ 
ment or recreation every day; but always 
be in the habit of being employed. 
2. Never err the least in truth. 
3. Never say an ill thing of a person, 
when thou canst say a good thing of him. 
Not only speak charitably, hut feel so. 
4. Never be irritable or unkind to any¬ 
body. 
5. Never indulge thyself in luxuries that 
are not necessary. 
6. Do all things with consideration, and 
when thy path to act right is difficult, put 
confidence in that Power alone which is 
able to assist thee, and exert thine own 
powers as far as they go. 
It isn’t the thing you do, dear. 
It’s the tiling you’ve left undone. 
Which gives you a bli of heartache 
At tbe setting of the sun. 
The tender word forgotten. 
The letter you did not write. 
The flower you might have sent dear, 
Are your haunting ghoststo-nlght." 
A Bright New Year, and a sunny track 
Along an upward way. 
And a song of praise on looking back. 
When the year has passed away, 
And golden sheaves nor small nor few! 
This is my New Year’s wish for you ! 
—Frances Ridley Havergal. 
Emerson says: Labor! A man coins 
himself into his labor ; turns his day, his 
strength, his affection into some product 
which remains as the visible sign of his 
power; and to protect that, to secure that 
to him, to secure his past self to his future 
self, is the object of all government. 
£tti,$ccUancou$ Advertising. 
With His Thumb, 
A boy is said to have saved the Netherlands 
from inundation. Multitudes have been 
saved from the invasion of disease by a 
bottle of Ayer’s Sarsaparilla. This medicine 
imparts tone to the system and strengthens 
every organ and fibre of the body. 
“ I have taken a great deal of medicine, 
but nothing has done me so much good as 
Ayer’s Sarsaparilla. I experienced its bene¬ 
ficial effects before I had quite finished one 
bottle, and 1 can freely testify that it is the 
best blood medicine I know of.” —L. W. 
Ward, sr., Woodland, Texas. 
“ Confined to an office, as I am. from one 
year’s end to another, with little or no out¬ 
door exercise, I find great help in Ayer’s 
Sarsaparilla, which I have used for several 
years, and am at present using, with excel¬ 
lent results. It enables me to keep always 
at my post, enjoying the best of health.” — 
II. C. Barnes, Malden, Mass. 
Ayer’s Sarsaparilla 
PREPARED BY 
DR. J. C. AYER & CO., Lowell, Mass. 
Sold by Druggists. $l,six$0. Worth $5 a bottle. 
BEECHAM’S PILLS 
act T.r«n MiVGrIG 
ON A WEAK STOMACH. 
2Scts. a Box 
OF ALL PRUCCISTS. 
Landreths’ Pink-Eye Wax Beans, 
Landreths’ Scarlet Beans, 
Landreths’ Very Early Forcing Beet, 
Landreths’ All-tlie - Year-Bound Cab¬ 
bage, 
Landreths’ Earliest Cabbage, 
Reed land Early Drumhead Cabbage, 
Market Gardeners’ Late Elat Dutch 
Landreths’ Long Light Icing Water¬ 
melon, 
Reedland Giant Cantaloupe Melon, 
Extra Early Hackensack Melon, 
LANDRETHS’ EX. EARLY PEAS, 
Nantes Carrot, 
Golden Globe Radish, 
Landreths’ White Lady Finger Radish, 
Cabbage, Extra Early Bush Squash, 
Bloonisdale Reliable Lettuce, W hite-Leaved Collards, 
Beauty Tomato, Peach Tomato, Golden Trophy Tomato. 
SAMPLE PACKETS. containing one paper of each of the 
above varieties, mailed post-paid for ONE DOLLAR, 
Send a postal card for our Catalogue for 1890, "VC ATT TATA T’T? XT’ T 1 to All 
Address iVl i\ 1 Li ill JJ JO li Hi JOj APPLICANTS. 
founded n I AiinRCTII Sr QnilQ Seed Farmers and Merchants, 
1784. U* LHIUJIIE I II CC OUllOj PHILADELPHIA, PA. 
O CCnC at vour door Less than Wholesale Prices. GrefltC9t 
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OCCIIJ 
_ Offer 
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Prove Ui'eir ]rrear«ui>eri«rity and induce thousands of new customers 
_ totrv them, we will send free by mail on receipt of One Hollar, our 
Special Introduction Box, embracing Thirty full sized packets of 
■geulble and Flower Seeds, together with a copy of the notable new book, 
Aiief Garden.” The seeds alone at regular prices would cost $2,551 with the 
■ The box contains New Bush Lima Beans, the 
•— ---••■if 15 to 18 inches high, produc- 
imaBeans-Cumberland Red 
—.„.„.v, finest and largest of aU. 
Yundergaw Cabbage, the best for early or late. New Gol. 
den Bull Onion, distinct and handsome Blue Beanty l ea. 
X* ___ ^ _ A __ /loliol.'lio All/1 . , 1 I 1 < "f i X-* 
SuM-iioTeest Ve. 
“My Ilundkcrciuei uurui-n. *uv. 
hook, frg.HO actual value for only 
I Corn, sweetest of all. Golden SelfKlttnehlnic Celery, easiest 
I crown. Improved Hunt Proof Golden \V ax Bean, New ana 
| line. Tennis Ball Lettuce, earliest. Market Gardner’s Par- 
I s*ley, the best. Kmeraid Gem Munkmclon, thick salmon Iipmi 
I Milan Turnip, earliest and handsomest. Improved Long 
__ I Omnge Carrot. Knkhulzen Spinach, long-sfandiner. New 
Peach Tomato. Hire and novel. Golden Crook >eck ltn-h 
Squash. Lettuce, mixed, all varieties, riving line lettuce the entire season, and the following 
1 r irwMim Hn m n w i rririntm pnnfjntinilRhloom. I'minlc*. fiXtTZLOllOice mixed SOWFu. largo llOW- 
t>opJy; doTihie ^imatioiir "Ten' Weeks Stic-k^fiir^t’ doublV Prim rosV, 'latest flower*. 
Sweet Alysswm, Calllopslcu choice varieties. Send a $1 bill postal note^ors tarn v oins ul 
receive the lx>x hv return mail. 8 boxes mailed for § 2 . 50 . Otir Garden it Farm ‘ j ". ,, 7 • re r« 
•ill who order and to oth- 
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JOHNSON & 
<r 217 A- 219 
■ Market St 
. Philadelphia 
Plants, Roses, Shrubs,| 
Fruit and Ornamental 
Trees, Crape Vines, 
Small Fruits etc. • 
EVERYTHING IN THE NURSERY LINE. 
RAREST NEW. CHOICEST OLD.I 
Send ten cents for our illustrated catalogue oil 
about 150 pages, containing a certificate good fori 
ten cents m seeds, etc. Or send for our 32 page 1 
abridged catalogue and price-list free. 
36 years. 24 greenhouses. 700 acres.| 
THE STORRS & HARRISON CO., Painesville , 3 Ohio. 
EARLY. HEALTHY. HARDY. PRODUCTIVE. GOOD. 
.Tobiah Hoopf.s t 
H. Hyatt, 
S. I ». 1 WTIXAIUX Gen e va. says 7 ' ' I know of no white grape of recent introduction bo rich and pleasing.” 
For illustrated circular and prices, address R. C. CHASE & CO., CeneVa, N. Y. 
[We want Agents to solicit orders for our general line of Nursery stock. Salary sndexp«n»» tosuercMful m.n.| 
|^ARBEST6R0WEp 
VINES 
IN AMERICA 
IICUI PDA DEC ESTHER (white!, and R0CKW00D (black!, originated by E W. BULL, orig 
Ntn bnArtOi inator of the CONCORD GRAPE. Also EATON, MOYER, and all others, new 
and old. Best and Cheapest. Small Fruits. Free Catalogues. CEO.S. JOSSELYN, Fredoma, N.Y. 
FAY 
CURRANT 
HEADQUARTERS 
GRAPES li 
F m ■ i . w n ■ a w ^ o We have agreed with the publishers of this Journal to send our Vew t ata- 
RUIT PLANTS tree to all subscribers, telling all about our WONDERFUL NF.W 
fruits - Mrs Cleveland. Great Pacific. Florence. Eureka. Haverland. Stay man’s No. 1 and seventy other 
varieties of Strawberries- Thompson’s Karly Prolific Red Raspberry, the earliest of all: I aimer and Ada 
varieties or straw ‘ rrl „ ar|v M ‘ amnuHh Blackberry, aud eighty varletlw of Grapes and many other new 
CLEVELAND Nl RSER* CO., La 
Raspberries: Thompson's Early 
fruits for sale only by us. 
Lakewood. O. 
NEW STRAWBERRY 
| having 300 acres in culti^tm^Ca^I^eft-e^^ |(( 
