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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
April 15, 
l Woman and Home \ 
From Day to Day. books have been translated into all Eu- 
„ , ropean languages, and some of them even 
We don't bave time to watch the apple blos¬ 
soms blow, 
Because, forsooth, the house needs cleaning 
so; 
Then, having missed the blossoms, do not see 
the budding fruit 
Because it's time to see about a new Spring 
suit. 
And if to hear the robin’s note, or oriole's, 
we wait, 
An ogre from behind pipes up : “Late for a 
Winter hat, too late." 
If we but ope the window to gaze toward 
vernal skies, 
It's time to put the screens in, to keep out 
the flies; 
And even when the organ man comes down 
our street to play, 
The sound of l>eating carpets drowns out 
his tuneful lay; 
Though long for him we’ve waited, through 
Winter’s frost and rime, 
We only catch a broken strain of “The Good 
Old Summer Time.” 
Warm zephyrs whisper, “Moth balls”; our 
hearts fill with regret 
As we give up hunting Mayflowers to sprinkle 
camphoret. 
—Katherine P. Fuller in Good Housekeeping. 
• 
According to the demonstrators at the 
recent dressmakers’ convention here, the 
comfortable straight front corset is now 
entirely out of date, and modern woman 
must approximate an hour-glass in form, 
even if she sacrifices a diaphragm to do 
it. The new curved front, however, is 
quite different from the old; it is straight 
below the waist, but curves above, and is 
much higher, doing away with the low 
bust and loose waist line of a few years 
ago. The curved effect above the waist 
is increased by padding in the front of the 
dress. 
* 
In the new Spring millinery some de¬ 
cidedly novel shapes are displayed, most 
unfamiliar to our eyes being yery small 
round hats, which are perched on the hair 
at a decided slant, like the little pancake 
hat of the hoopskirt period. While brown 
is much in evidence, blue is a favorite 
color, produced in a variety of tones. 
Velasquez is a favorite gray-blue; Saxon 
and Sevres are light blues. American 
Beauty shades running into purplish wine 
colors make some handsome hats/ but 
how “trying” they are to most complex¬ 
ions! Chartreuse is the name given to a 
series of wine greens. Banane is a fav¬ 
orite yellow, that combines well with va¬ 
rious browns and bronze greens. 
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The new raincoats may be described as 
rain or shine coats, for they are worn 
largely as regular wraps. They are so 
well made and trimmed that their use¬ 
fulness is at once apparent, and it is not 
surprising to learn that some factories 
for the making of mackintosh cloth have 
now gone out of business, because they 
cannot compete with modern rainproof 
cloth. A collarless redingote of tan, olive 
or Oxford worsted, with pleated blouse 
and full sleeves, costs $15; black or 
brown serge with in isible plaid, costs 
the same, being double-breasted, with 
wide box pleat in the back, belt and wide 
sleeves. At $20 are handsome coats of 
herringbone worsted, double-breasted, 
with two adjustable capes. Beautiful 
French waterproof automobile coats of 
silk and rubber cost $35 to $65. 
* 
The death of Jules Verne, who passed 
away at Amiens, France, March 24, re¬ 
moves a great romancer who lived to see 
many of his wildest fancies outdone by 
the facts of modern science. He was born 
at Nantes in 1828, and for more than 40 
years has been thrilling boyish readers 
with his stories of scientific adventure. 
Not boyish readers only, for many a 
mature woman will look back to the 
time when, seated on a leafy branch in 
some quiet home acre, she roamed under 
the seas with Captain Nemo, or visited 
the moon with Hector Servadac. For 
40 years Jules Verne worked under con¬ 
tract, turning out two stories a year. 
Thomrh he never received the coveted 
honors of the Academie Francaise, he has 
amused and instructed the boys of the 
whole world, and was beloved and hon¬ 
ored by the kindly citizens of Amiens. His 
into Persian and Japanese. 
The Rural Patterns. 
Under waists made firm and durable 
and to which other garments can be at¬ 
tached, are much sought for by mothers 
of active little folk. The model illustrated 
can be used for little petticoats as well as 
for the drawers. The material from which 
the model is made is white drilling for the 
4977 Child's Under Waist and Drawers, 
2 to 8 3 ears. 
waist, cambric for the drawers, the trim¬ 
ming being embroidered frills. The waist 
is made with front and backs and the 
V-shaped under-facing, which extends un¬ 
der the arms and renders it strong and 
durable. The quantity of material re¬ 
quired for the medium size (6 years) is 
y& yard 27 inches wide for under waist, 
and yard 35 inches wide for drawers, 
with y/ 2 yards of edging for frills. The 
pattern 4977 is cut in sizes for children 
of 2, 4, 6 and 8 years. Price 10 cents. 
No dress suits small children better 
than this simple one that hangs in straight, 
unbroken lines from the shoulders. In the 
case of the model it is made of white Per¬ 
sian lawn trimmed with embroidery, and 
is slightly low at the neck, with elbow 
sleeves, but the yoke and collar can be 
added, and the sleeves made to extend 
4981 Child’s Bishop Dress, 
1, 2, 4 and 6 years. 
to the wrists, as shown in the small view, 
whenever preferred. The dress is made 
with the skirt portion and the yoke, which 
is cut with front and backs, and the full 
sleeves. The sleeves are joined to the 
dress at the upper edge and are gathered 
with it, then attached to the yoke, and are 
gathered into straight cuffs at their lower 
edges. The quantity of material required 
for the medium size (4 years) is 3J4 yards 
27, 3 yards 32 or 2 yards 44 inches wide, 
with yards 18 inches wide for yoke and 
collar and 3^ yards of banding to trim 
as illustrated. The pattern 4981 is cut in 
sizes for children of 1, 2, 4 and 6 years of 
age. Price, 10 cents. 
Those Bothersome Buttons. 
If one has many buttons to sew on, the 
easiest and quickest way is to take the 
largest needle admissible and thread it 
with several strands of thread at once. 
The holes can then be filled with very few 
stitches. In sewing large-eyed buttons on 
shirtwaists, for instance, the coarse and 
strong mercerized cotton will make a per¬ 
manent fastening with only two or three 
stitches. Non-washablc buttons may b 
used on washable waists very easily by 
simply putting the pin of a small safety 
pin through the eyes and fastening it un¬ 
der the pleat, or by using double thread 
as above and just tying it underneath. 
Either way makes the removal and replac¬ 
ing of the buttons a matter of a few sec¬ 
onds only. 
One of my pet economies is saving but* 
tons, and if “a penny saved is two pen¬ 
nies earned,” then my button box has 
earned many a dollar since its establish¬ 
ment as a sewing room fixture. There is 
no faneywork about it—simply a shallow 
wooden box from the grocery, with rows 
and rows of little white bags in it. A 
small salt bag stitched and cut across the 
middle, makes two. The tops are gath¬ 
ered with coarse thread, a button is 
caught on the outside to show contents 
and prevent a time-wasting hunt through 
many bags, and there you are. Every old 
garment yields its quota, and it is sel¬ 
dom indeed that we have to buy, for the 
accumulation of 20 years’ housekeeping 
nearly always reveals “just the thing” for 
the new garment. One row of bags in 
this invaluable box holds snaps and hooks 
and eyes. _ fuller. 
The Bookshelf. 
The Potato, by Samuel Frazer; 200 
pages, illustrated. The Orange Judd Co., 
New York. This is a well-written manual 
for the potato grower, and a convenient 
reference book for the agricultural stu¬ 
dent. The history, botany and culture of 
this important vegetable is very carefully 
treated. Price 75 cents from this office. 
The Journal of Agricultural Science. 
—This is a new publication issued by the 
University Press, Cambridge, England. 
The intention is to make it a channel for 
the publication and discussion of scientific 
papers bearing upon agriculture. The 
journal will be issued in parts of about 
100 pages, royal octavo; each volume will 
consist of four parts. The first part con¬ 
tains a most interesting account of the 
first attempt to use nitrogen derived from 
the air in the form of an artificial manure, 
this material being called calcium cyana- 
mide; there are also valuable papers on 
wheat breeding, hop pollination, etc. The 
journal is distributed in this country by 
the Macmillan Company, New York; sin¬ 
gle copies, $1.50; subscription, $4.50. 
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