1905. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
Christmas Ahead. 
I. 
Two girls, Bettie and Helen, sat chat¬ 
ting together at twilight. The Summer 
people were gone, the canning and pick¬ 
ling well out of the way, and Fall clean- 
reduced to a few last tasks left for the 
warm bright days. 
“What about your Christmas work? 
Anything begun?” asked Bettie. 
“Always plenty of things begun,” 
laughed Helen. “You know I am always 
planning twice what I can do. I did fin¬ 
ish two or three little doilies during the 
Summer. Those always seem acceptable 
presents, and it is so convenient to have 
them ready to tuck into a letter with 
Christmas good wishes.” 
“How did you mount the linen centers 
in those Teneriffe wheels you were mak¬ 
ing?” 
“I got some rather fine white linen and 
cut circular pieces. Around these I ar¬ 
ranged the wheels evenly, letting them 
just touch one another and extend beyond 
the linen a little less than half their depth. 
First I basted them, then tacked each 
loop to the linen along the edge, after 
that I had only to cut away the linen 
beneath each one leaving enough to roll 
in a narrow hem for a finish.” 
“Did you make any other sorts?” 
“Yes. Several with buttonholed edges 
and cut work for decoration. Some were 
on fine linen with slender sprays of rather 
fine work, but I made several on butchers’ 
linen with larger eyelets. Those will 
wear and wash well, and I shall give 
them to people who like to use mats on 
their dining tables. One often saves 
changing a tablecloth when you are in a 
hurry. You know.” 
“Oh, you haven’t seen the table mats 
I have made for Aunt Em.” Bettie ran 
to a closet and came back with a box 
full of her handiwork. The mats were 
spread forth and duly admired. They 
were made in close single crochet stitch 
to give a ribbed surface, and were of 
three sizes, one large oval, two smaller 
ovals and two smaller yet, and nearly 
evenly six-sided. All were clear white 
and had scalloped borders. 
“But what makes them so stiff and 
firm, Bettie?” asked her friend. 
“The macrame cord I crocheted them 
of. 1 got the finest size, not ecru, but 
clear white. The mats are far handsomer 
than those made with knitting cotton, 
and being so much heavier they protect 
the table from hot dishes better. Aunt 
Em especially asked that she might 
sometime have a set like ours. But what 
to give Aunt Kate! She hasn’t any 
house and she says she detests throws and 
drapes and cotton batting, pinky ribbony 
duds. I shouldn’t dare select a book or 
a picture for her, and she never wears 
aprons or worsted shawls or any of the 
things that are in my line of manufac¬ 
ture.” 
“That was an exceedingly pretty stock 
you wore last Sunday.” 
“Oh that! I made it out of some odds 
and ends of Swiss embroidery that some 
one gave me. I couldn’t find any pretty 
lace in the village or go to the city for 
it, so I took some lace braids and made 
a simple pattern for the top and set lines 
of it between the Swiss insertion. I cut 
a stiff paper pattern of the collar first, 
and basted my work on to that while 
overhanding it together. I had to roll the 
edges of the Swiss embroidery, and was 
ashamed to think how long I was mak¬ 
ing such a trifling thing.” 
“But it is the fine needlework that 
makes it so much more desirable than 
any ready-to-wear collars we can afford 
to buy. There are lovely things in the 
city stores, but they are beyond country 
purses; at least we would be foolish to 
spend so much on little things to wear 
to places we go to. But your Aunt Kate 
will appreciate fine hand work. Do try 
to make her some collars. Sheer, fine 
things, I would select. Then she can 
mount them over colors if she likes for 
Winter use, but next season they will be 
useful stiffened with featherbone. I no¬ 
ticed in the city last week that there was 
little new in outlines. All had some lit¬ 
tle tab or dip in front. Sometimes there 
was a large flower design embroidered 
there and cut out around its lower edge. 
But watch the needlework columns and 
you will get hints of pretty things.” 
Bettie sighed: “I wish I had money 
enough to buy all the presents I want to 
give.” 
“But you once told me that your Aunt 
Kate spent ever so many dollars at the 
woman’s exchange buying things to give 
away, and I suppose they were all hand¬ 
made things just such as you could 
make.” 
With a little laugh Bettie drew from 
her box several patterns and pieces of 
work half completed. 
“These are to put your shoes in to 
keep them from soiling other things in 
your trunk or suit-case,’ she explained, 
displaying some linen cases just long and 
wide enough to hold a pair of shoes or 
slippers. The opening was at one end 
and closed with a pointed flap and a loop 
which slipped over a pearl button. The 
cases were made of blue linen, an initial 
embroidered in white on one side, the flap 
bound with white ribbon and that and the 
seams brierstitched with white. 
She had also a compact little case for 
holding hair brush, comb and hair pins. 
This was made of blue linen and bound 
and brierstitched with white. Some large 
squares of silkalene with brierstitched 
hems were designed for folding about 
white blouses and other garments needing 
special care when packing. Each was 
made the width of the material, and of a 
length to correspond. She had chosen a 
design of yellow and brown roses on a 
cream ground and worked the hems with 
burnt orange silk. prudence primrose. 
The Bookshelf. 
Heimweh, by John Luther Long. This 
is a volume containing several stories, of 
varying length. Some of them have ap¬ 
peared in well-known magazines; others 
are printed for the first time. They are 
all written with the cleverness and bril¬ 
liancy of diction which Mr. Long has dis¬ 
played in his previous work, though often 
carrying their sentiment to an artificial 
degree. The book is beautifully bound 
and illustrated. Published by the Mac¬ 
millan Company, New York; price $1.50. 
The Road Builders, by Samuel Mer- 
win. This may be called a romance of 
hard work; it relates the life of a con¬ 
struction outfit, building a railroad in the 
great Southwest. It breathes an open-air 
life, and gives the wholesome sense of 
duty, and the energy that must be ever 
ready for great emergencies, which are 
needed in such an enterprise, and after 
all, such qualities are equally needed in 
ditching a farm or building the district 
road. Any writer who suceeds in show¬ 
ing the best and most hopeful side of 
genuine hard work does much for his 
kind, and Mr. Merwin will appeal strong¬ 
ly to a large class of readers. “The 
Road Builders” is published by the Mac¬ 
millan Company, New York; price $1.50. 
A PALE-FACED GIRL 
wants more red in her blood. 
If subject to dizziness, faint¬ 
ing and shortness of breath 
on slight exertion, no doubt 
remains. Your doctor will' 
confirm this. Her food is 
not nourishing her; she needs 
a change. The best change 
and the best nourishment she 
can get is Scott’s Emulsion. 
Her food soon has the upper 
hand; her blood is enriched; 
her color returns. We never 
yet heard of a pale-faced girl 
who didn’t get new strength, 
new vigor and new color from 
Scott’s Emulsion. 
SCOTT & BOWNE, 400 Pearl Street, New York. 
"qTI^lL mount birds. 
, 4 -^- 5 , Quickly learned by Men, Women, Boys. v Very 
'illSSS fascinating. BIG PROFITS for your spare time. 
(■M Investigate this to-day. Full particulars, tine 
y 8 KL».. catalogue and Taxidermy Magazine all FREE. 
JKBJ N.W. School of Taxidermy U 9 NSt., Omaha, Neb. 
799 
MAKE A STOVE of your LAMP 
(Round-nick) or GAS JET by attaching a 
When you write advertisers menron The 
R. N.-Y. and you’ll get a quick reply and 
“a square deal.” See guarantee, page 8. 
Giant Hester 
Getting Heat and Eight at One Cost. 
It will heat any ordinary room comfortably in 
zero weather, by accumulating, Intensifying and 
radiating the heat that ordinarily goes to waste. 
Hoes not interfere with the light. 
Economical, as no more gas or oil 18 con¬ 
sumed with our heater attach¬ 
ed than without. 
Absolutely no danger, 
as heater In no way Interferes 
with the combustion. 
Attracts cold air on the 
vacuum principle, thoroughly 
wanning, purifying and circu¬ 
lating the air. No odor, no 
ashes or trouble. 
The Giant Heater is easily 
How It Makes Heat, applied to any central draught 
amp chimney, gas jet, or any mantle burner 
(artificial or natural gas). 
Valuable at all times of the year Tor heating the 
hath room, sick rootn, bed room, den or 
office; for light cooking, heating water for shaving, 
warning babies’ food, etc. » 
□ DIPC Polished Brass Complete. SI.50 
inlUCy Nickel plated on Brass, 82.00 
Sent by mail or express prepaid. You take no 
risk, if heater is not satisfactory and returned 
to us In 10 days, we refund the money. Book free. 
GIANT HEATER CO,, 27 Monmouth St., Springfield, Mass. 
Ideal Sport 
A Fine Day 
A Good Dog 
and 
describing‘‘Stevens" 
guns of every sort 
and style, for hunter, 
marksman, girl or boy. 140 
pages. Sent free to 
any one interested 
in guns, sending 4 cents in stamps to 
Cover postage. 
If your dealer cannot supply you 
write to us. 
J. STEVENS ARMS & TOOL CO. 
70 High 8treet 
Chlcopea Falls, Mass., U.S.A, 
SEND US 
A COW, 
Steer, Bull or Horse hide, 
Calf skin, Dog skin, or any 
other kind of hide or skin,and 
let us tan it with the hair on, 
soft,light,odorless and moth¬ 
proof, for robe, rug, coat or 
gloves. 
But first get our Catalogue giving 
prices, and our shipping tags and 
instructions bo as to avoid mistakes. 
We also manufacture and sell direct 
to consumer, Galloway and other fur 
coats and robes. Prices given in 
catalog. We buy raw furs but no 
ginseng. Ask for raw fur price list. 
THE CROSBY FRISIAN FUR COMPANY, 
116 Mill Street, Rochester, N. Y. 
SLOAN 5 
LINIMENT 
FOR MAN 
AND BEAST. 
KILLS PAIN 
AND .DESTROYS 
ALL GERM LIFE. 
CURES RHEUMATISM 
WONDERFULLY 
PENETRATING. 
A COMPLETE 
MEDICINE CHEST. 
Price, 25c., 50c., and $1.00. 
Dr. EARL S. SLOAN, 
615 Albany St., Boston, Mass 
Talking Points for 
THE 
FOUR-TRACK 
NEWS 
Which Explain Its Emphatic Success 
Here are a few reasons why you want The 
Four-Track News on the reading table in 
your home. Look them over, think them 
over-then send for a sample copy and see if 
you don't think The Four-Track News is 
worth $1 a yoar to yourself and your family. 
its scope is confined to no geographical 
section: tho world is its field. 
It instructs 
It entertains. 
It's different 
It is a universal favorite. 
It is always and forever up to-date, 
it is a great holp to students In history 
classes. 
There is much in every issue of educational 
value to every reader. 
It is entertaining to the father and mother 
as well as to the children. 
It is eloquent with bright, brief, valuablo 
articles and superb pictures. 
Subscriptions, $1.00 a Year; Foreign Coun¬ 
tries. $1 50; at News-stands , 10 Cents a Copy. 
A sample copy and our special terms to 
agents will cost you nothing. Send your ad¬ 
dress and two references to George H. 
Daniels. Publisher, Room No. 21. 7 East 42d 
St.. New York. 
THE HESSLER STILL LEADS. 
Best made and 
most durable box 
on the market. 
Don’tbe deceived 
by pictures that 
look like 
“The Hessler.” 
To got the best, 
insist on having 
the Original Gen¬ 
uine HESSLER 
BOX, not the im¬ 
itation. Agents 
RURAL MAIL BOX. ln 6V6ry 
H. E. HESSLER CO., Syracuse,N.Y. 
Grind Your Own Poultry Food 
You can put a few cents’ worth of 
dry bone, old shells or corn into an 
Enterprise Bone Mill, and it will in¬ 
crease in value tenfold. There : s no 
food so good for poultry as a variety, 
nor a way to save money so easily as 
to grind your own poultry food, using 
ENTERPRISE 
Bone, Shell and Corn Mills 
These mills are good general mills for all farmers and poultrymen, 
being strong, compact, made of excellent material. Especially adapted 
to grinding dry bones, shells, corn, roots, bark, grain, chicken feed, etc. 
Bone meal fertilizer can be made with them. Capacity i 1-4 bushels of 
corn per hour. Weight 60 lbs. Mill shown in cut $8.50. Other mills 
$6 and up. Look for the name “Enterprise.” Full information on request. 
THE ENTERPRISE MFG. CO. of PA„ 263Dauphin SI.. Philadelphia. Pa. 
