1906. 
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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
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Summer Blouses and Guimpes. 
My girls have been making themselves 
blouses in the new shadow embroidery. 
Pauline had hers begun on 37)4 cent lawn, 
which we thought quite sheer and pretty, 
but when Bessie read in The R. N.-Y. 
items that handkerchief linen was the 
proper material nothing would do for her 
but handkerchief linen. They sent for 
samples and received 8 or 10 sorts at 
prices ranging between 50 cents and $1.50 
the yard. Half of these were too thick to 
let the work shadow through, and the 
more sheer kinds seemed coarse as cheese¬ 
cloth almost, and Bessie said, “So slimp- 
sey, too! Every stitch will have to be 
done in an embroidery hoop! I suppose 
they would iron off handsomely and grow 
fine and silky with use, but I guess the 
lawn will have to do for me, after all.” 
It may not have been a wise choice, but 
Bessie is plump and wears her waists hard 
below the arm's-eye and the linen did not 
look very durable. She drew the design 
herself, simplifying some found on a 
fashion page. She took a piece of stiff 
paper and marked out the outline of a 
waist neck and shoulders, having the pa¬ 
per folded double at the center. All the 
thin blouses this year are opened at the 
back. The center of the design was 
sketched in evenly on the folded line, the 
scrolls of one side worked out, and the 
other made like it by holding it up 
against the window. They found that 
graceful stems added greatly to the fin¬ 
ished effect, but were very easy to do, that 
drooping leaves and tendrils were pretti¬ 
est, and that narrow petals and bunches 
of narrow drooping leaves filled in bet¬ 
ter than broad spaces where the thread 
must be carried far on the back from side 
to side. After Bess had her pattern done 
in pencil she drew' it over with pen] and 
ink. This made it easily _ seen through 
the thin lawn. Pinning it securely in 
place, she traced her design directly on 
the lawn with a sharp lead pencil. The 
stitches taken along the pencil marks com¬ 
pletely obliterate them, and furthermore 
this is the back of the work. 
I was astonished to see how rapidly the 
girls could do this work, which has such 
a fine and dainty look. Even Pet. who 
is only 12, succeeded in doing some very 
creditably on the front of a guimpe for 
herself. As all blouses must this season 
have their collars made on, Bess made a 
narrow vine-like pattern, and they used 
two lines of narrow Val insertion and 
edge with this to form the collar; inser¬ 
tion next the waist, then the narrow 
shadow work on lawn, with insertion and 
edge atop. The cuffs to the elbow' are 
made to match with a three-inch band of 
the shadow work through the center. In¬ 
sets of Val insertion being this year’s 
special fancy, the girls decided that though 
but a small amount of lace was used it 
would add to the up-to-date look. But 
lines of narrow tucks would have been 
equally pretty, I think. 
To avoid the country woman’s annoy¬ 
ance of a lot of old-fashioned clothes on 
hand and all still as good as new, we try 
to have but a few fresh garments each 
year, to have those good style and to 
wear them “everywhere we go.” Thanks 
to hands used to work and plenty of soap 
and water, no girl need wait for the week¬ 
ly wash when in need of a fresh blouse, 
or worry lest the laundress fade her pret¬ 
ty muslins. Pet’s guimpe is so pretty that 
I W'ill ask Bessie to draw a small pattern 
to give an idea of what a few leaves and 
stems w'ill do to embellish such a garment. 
The w'ork is done with mercerized em¬ 
broidery cotton, and it is better to use as 
coarse a number as can be worked neatly, 
that the stitches may stand up well on the 
right side. Letter B. was what the girls 
used. Do you know the method? Sup¬ 
pose you begin a leaf at the point. Take 
one stitch on its right-hand side, then one 
stitch on its left-hand side, next back to 
the right, then to the left. So, crossing 
and recrossing, the thread is carried across 
the leaf and thus covers it, leaving a sin¬ 
gle line of stitches on each of its edges 
like fine backstitching. If you begin at the 
point of a leaf you work backward, that 
is, away from you, having each stitch come 
up in the hole where the one before went 
down. On a stem this becomes merely a 
close outline stitch, you see. The side on 
which you work is the wrong side of the 
finished piece, the heavy leaves, etc., show¬ 
ing through -the thin cloth and the small, 
seed-like stitches following the outlines. 
Of course both cloth and embroidery 
floss are always in white. 
The fine, light blue gingham to be worn 
over Pet’s guimpe is made with V front 
from shoulder to belt and two little straps 
of the gingham crossing the V. The 
sleeves have puffs of the gingham to the 
elbow, the close guimpe sleeves showing 
below. _R. ITHAMAR. 
A Friend in Need. 
Now, a pun, even a poor one, was far¬ 
thest from my mind when I wrote down 
this title. Nevertheless, I decided to let 
it remain, for truly this is just the kind 
of a true and tried friend our bread- 
mixer has proved to us. I have read with 
interest of Charity Sweetheart’s, longings 
for a bread-mixer, and I appreciate deep¬ 
ly why she fears to invest. Like her. I’ve 
found: 
“One lesson, that life teaches. 
Shows the lender beyond doubt 
That the things she has in her pantry 
Are the things she’ll do without.” 
Then on page 341 I read of one, who, 
while granting the utility of a mixer, fears 
that the extra time required in its care 
more than offsets its labor-saving quali¬ 
ties. The pail of the bread-mixer and 
the pan in which this writer sets her 
bread will take an equal amount of time 
to wash; the same care as to cleanliness 
and dryness must be observed in each 
case. Then the mixing rod. and the iron 
spoon can be compared in the same re¬ 
spect. Plere the advantage is certainly 
in favor of the curved rod. The cover 
of the mixer will correspond to the tin 
cover of the bread pan, the latter being 
larger, or if a cloth is used, to the washing 
of it. The bread-mixer is now washed 
in the same time that the pan and spoon 
would be. There is the crank, to be sure; 
but how little time that takes! The three 
minutes that it takes to mix the bread in 
the mixer will not be long enough to get 
an equal amount of work done by the 
iron spoon. Plere the mixer scores a very 
decided advantage. For some time before 
getting the mixer we have dispensed with 
the use of the molding board for molding 
the loaves. Of course the bread was first 
kneaded thoroughly on the board, set in 
the pan to rise; when light, sufficient for 
a loaf was taken out and by a few quick 
moves shaped to a loaf in the hands, which 
are well-floured. This may sound diffi¬ 
cult but a little practice soon makes nice¬ 
shaped loaves possible. Our theory is that 
after the rising of the bread it should be 
handled as little as possible. We now 
follow the same plan with the bread- 
mixer. Now, we do without the molding 
board altogether. If the pail, rod and in¬ 
side of cover be first rubbed with lard 
before putting in the yeast and flour, the 
washing will be very easy. All hail to 
the bread-mixer! It is one of the greatest 
of blessings to women of to-day. It is a 
time, labor and strength saver. 
HELEN C. ANDREWS. 
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