1905 
Charity Sweetheart’s Letters. 
The garden will soon be workable, and 
the boys look forward to helping me to 
have it better than ever before. That is 
one thing about a garden; be it ever so 
small, if yon really love it and enjoy 
the work, yon will be planning ahead how 
to improve it, and searching for some¬ 
thing new that will be useful as well as 
ornamental. 
Last year our tomatoes didn’t do well; 
they were to be an early variety, but the 
fruit was small, and no earlier than other 
folks who planted the common kinds. So 
we didn’t get many canned, and I want to 
do better this season, and have made a 
little hotbed with the help of the boys, 
who carried the manure and helped me 
fork it into shape. There was an old 
frame that answered, and I paid a car¬ 
penter to make a sash, doing the glazing 
myself, 'the little plants are growing 
nicely, and it seems to me that it is the 
best plan to sow them rather thickly, for 
where there is only a scattering it seems 
harder for them to push through; like a 
crowd of children, they give each other 
courage. So we water, and shade, and 
air onr little plants, and they will soon 
be ready to thin out into another little 
frame that I mean to nail together with 
a few bits of boards, and to make a cov¬ 
ering of bagging to protect them at night. 
I hope that it may not be “counting 
chickens before they are hatched,” but if 
I can sell a few plants later, it will pay 
for the seed and for our work. 
It always seems nice to get the house¬ 
cleaning done early before gardening be¬ 
gins. The days of March and early April 
are so long and cheerful that the sun 
shines into all the dark corners, and we 
can sec where the smoke and grime has 
gathered. I bought a bottle of household 
ammonia at the store, and it is the first 
time we have used it. Minty says it 
saves soap, and that I have not used 
nearly so much as other years, but at any 
rate, a little of it makes the dirt slip off 
without so much hard rubbing, and leaves 
the woodwork and windows fresh and 
shining. I keep up the same plan that we 
always have done in house-cleaning time; 
begin at the top of the house and take 
one room at a time. It is no wonder men 
dread what the funny papers call “the 
melancholy days” when the women turn 
the house all upside down at once every 
Spring and Fall, so that things are kept 
in confusion. So we begin early and let 
each room have its little day of scrubbing, 
airing and renewing. For that is the way 
with life—one day at a time, they never 
crowd out of turn. 
Long ago I persuaded Minty to let me 
banish the rag carpets from the bedroom 
floors, and gave them a coat of stain. 
Then I spent one Winter making rugs 
for each room, just as pretty as I could. 
So when it comes to Spring cleaning there 
are no heavy carpets to lift, and though 
Minty declares that the floors are not so 
warm, she has to admit that they do not 
catch dirt and lint, and are much easier 
to sweep. There is a fascination about 
rug making, though mine are old-fash¬ 
ioned braided ones, but I have tried to 
have the colors harmonize. How I wish 
that I had a chance to see some of the 
homemade art rugs that I have read 
about. The best attempt I made was for 
Minty as a gift, and it was a bit of loose 
brown salt bag, cut the size and bleached- 
Then I designed a pattern from a picture 
I had seen, and filled it in with blue and 
brown coarse yarn, done in cross stitch. 
It was lined with the skirt of an old 
brown woolen dress, and took quite a 
while to make, and a good many odd mo¬ 
ments afterwards admiring it. 
Mrs. Nason came over the other day 
from their farm six miles north of here. 
She stayed all day and chatted of things 
of interest, and otherwise. I didn’t pay 
much attention until when I was setting 
the table she said: 
“You know Sister Ann Collard takes 
The R. N.-Y. now, and lends it to me, so 
I read your little bits about us folks. I 
shouldn’t think Minty would like it the 
way you talk, and everybody knows when 
you have pie for dinner. Now, if you 
was of a retiring disposition you wouldn’ 
like to be telling the public all your af¬ 
fairs. Some folks wonder if you get all 
3 f our big words out of the cyclopedia, 
for j’ou never had much schooling, Char¬ 
ity.” 
I gave an honest laugh; these little 
neighborly thrusts do not hurt or trouble 
me. I know there is a good heart beneath 
and take them for what they are worth. 
“There’s one thing,” she said, “I’m glad 
there was a freeze down in Florida, for 
the Hope Farm man was so set up about 
the climate, and every time we had a pep¬ 
pering of snow my old man got as skit¬ 
tish as a colt, and vowed he’d sell out 
and be off to an orange grove. Tt’s too 
unsettling for people who are fixed and 
can’t jaunt off when they take a notion.” 
“Never mind, Mrs. Nason,” I said, “the 
maple trees will soon be budding, and 
we shall forget all about the Winter, and 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER., 
291 
get our innings as well as they, even if 
we do wait a little longer.” 
As I said the word “maples,” 1 remem' 
bered having heard of a bit of woods only 
a mile past the schoolhouse that was to 
rent, and I intend to persuade Brother 
to take it and let me help run it. I am 
sure the outdoor life will be* good, to say 
nothing of the sugar, and if he agrees I 
will write the next letter from the camp 
CHARITY SWEETHEART. 
The Rural Patterns. 
The pretty little girl’s dress shown con¬ 
sists of waist and skirt. The waist is 
made with front and backs that are ful 
4988 Girl’s Dress, 6 to 12 years. 
and arranged over a fitted body lining, 
which is faced to form the yoke when 
high neck is used. The bertha is cut in 
handkerchief style and made to outline 
the yoke or to finish the low neck. The 
short sleeves are puffs gathered into 
bands and the long ones are in bishop 
style. The skirt is straight, tucked at 
its lower edge and gathered at the upper, 
and is joined to the waist when lining is 
used, to the belt that connects it with 
the waist when lining is omitted. The 
quantity of material required for the me¬ 
dium size (10 years) is 6 yards 21, 5 
4989 Jacket with Vest Front. 
32 to 42 bust. 
yards 27, or 4 yards 44 inches .wide with 
2 yards of banding and Y yard of em¬ 
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8, 10, and 12 years of age; price 10 cents. 
Vest fronts are greatly in vogue this 
season. Contrasting silks, embroideries 
and Persian brocades are all used, but 
nothing is more effective for such a sim¬ 
ple coat as the one illustrated than light- 
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is made with fronts that are cut in two 
portions each, backs, side-backs and un¬ 
der-arm gores. The vest portions are 
separate and are joined to the fronts, 
which are turned back to form revers, a 
collar finishing the neck. The sleeves are 
full at the shoulders, plain at the wrists, 
and can either be finished with roll-over 
cuffs or stitched as shown in the back 
view. The quantity of material required 
for the medium size is 4*4 yards 27, 2*4 
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4989 is cut in sizes for a 32, 34, 36, 38, 40 
and 42-inch bust measure; price 10 cents. 
Poor Cranberries. —I had some cran¬ 
berries, the last end of a barrel, which 
looked as if about two-thirds of them 
were good for nothing. I put them in a 
pan and poured hot water over them. 
The water was not boiling, for that would 
have caused the berries to crack and lose 
their juice. The hot water caused the 
berries to swell, and the good ones were 
plump and shiny. They were dipped out 
with a skimmer and picked over. To my 
surprise, there was but a very small hand¬ 
ful of poor ones in two quarts of berries. 
_ S. B. R. 
Make life a ministry of love and it will 
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Let us be thankful that our sorrow 
lives in us as an indestructible force, only 
changing its form and passing from pain 
into sympathy—the one word which in¬ 
cludes all our best insight and our best 
love.—George Eliot. 
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