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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
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Canning Asparagus. 
Will you give a recipe for canning aspara¬ 
gus, in glass jars, for Winter use? J. c. 
Straight-sided quart glass jars, such as 
the “Royal.” should be used for aspara¬ 
gus, so as to avoid breaking the stalks. 
Wash carefully, cut the right length to 
stand the whole stalk upright in the jar 
and pack in snugly, heads up; then pour 
in cold water slowly, until the jar is full 
to overflowing, and lay on the tops. Place 
straw or boards in the bottom of the 
wash-boiler, stand the jars on this, and 
pour in enough cold water to come half 
way up the jars; put the boiler over the 
fire, and when the water comes to a bo’!, 
boil steadily for three hours. Take up 
the jars, see that they are full to over¬ 
flowing (if not fill yp with boiling water) 
put on rubbers and screw or otherwise 
fasten the covers tight. Keep in a cool, 
dark place. Another recipe recommends 
boiling the asparagus for 15 minutes, then 
putting in the jar. and boiling in the 
wash-boiler for V/ hour, but we think 
some of the stalks are very likely to be 
broken by this method. 
Training the Children. 
I was once staying in a house in which 
were two boys, aged respectively nine and 
eleven years At 8 a. m., they were called 
in from their play to prepare for school. 
They usually went to their mother’s room 
to dress and, as soon as this process was 
under way, a stream of demands filled the 
house. “Mamma, I want a new shoe string.” 
“O, Mamma, have you seen my cap?” 
“I can't find my reader, Mamma,” and so 
on. The patient mother invariably put 
down her work and waited upon them. 
Indeed, no other course was poss : ble, for 
the children had not the slightest notion 
of self reliance. When they came home 
at night, the same exhibition was re- 
oeated. They left their school clothes, 
books, and lunch baskets for their mother 
to put away. When remonstrance was 
made she excused herself and them by 
saying: “O, they are such little fellows! 
When they are older, they wil learn to 
take care of their things.” 
This is a serious mistake. One can 
hardly begin too soon to train the children 
to a sense of responsibility concerning 
their belongings. The small tot may be 
given a corner in which to stow awav his 
toys, and a little firmness used to insure 
his restoring them to their place, when 
he is done playing with them. As the 
boys and girls grow up, give each a re¬ 
pository for his or her possessions, and 
insist upon its being kept in neatness anti 
order. A great difference will be found 
even in children of the same family in 
their aptitude for acquiring orderly hab¬ 
its. Girls are more easily trained than 
boys, for their natural instincts help theip. 
No mother should give up the struggle 
even though it is several times as much 
trouble to teach Johnny and Mabel to look 
after their belongings than to do it her¬ 
self. The habit once formed, will be of 
inestimable value to her children in years 
when there is no longer a gentle mother’s 
hand to help them. On a nearby dairy 
farm, whose owner has taken many prizes 
for fine butter at State and country fairs, 
a strict rule was made a few years ago 
that every employee must return a tool 
to its proper place as soon as he had 
finished using it. At first thought, it may. 
seem foolish to require a man to spend 15 
minutes in carrying a wrench or hammer 
to the barn when at work in an outlying 
field, but the fact that Mr. Brown retains 
the rule after thorough trial, is proof 
that he is satisfied with its working, and 
he is a wide-awake, practical farmer. 
He rightly judges that the time spent in 
putting things safely away would be more 
than counterbalanced by the cost of re¬ 
placing them, if carelessly thrown down 
and lost, and by the time spent in hunting 
for those mislaid. A man may be honest 
and diligent, but if he is disorderly, he 
does not inspire us with confidence. After 
Valuable tools and property are damaged 
because he is not a good caretaker, we 
reluctantly set) him down as a second-rate 
man. Let us remember this when train¬ 
ing our children, for the same judgment 
will be meted out to them when they take 
their places among the workers, if they 
lack orderliness. 
Train the boys to be handy about the 
house. Show them how to take care of 
their own room. A moment only is re¬ 
quired in the morning to open the window, 
throw back the bed clothes, and hang up 
the nightgowns. The room will then be 
pleasanter for mother or sister to go into 
than if the garments are left strewn about 
the floor, and the quilts twisted into a 
heap. Teach them to care for their cloth¬ 
ing. When the Sunday suit is taken off, 
it should be brushed, folded in the creases, 
and carefully laid in the drawer reserved 
for it. Shirts, neckties, and gloves should 
be smoothed out and put into their recep¬ 
tacles. Muddy shoes should be cleaned, 
and hats brushed and put into their boxes. 
Garments wear longer and look better 
when well cared for than when thrown 
6374 Bathing Suit with Circulai Skirt, 
34 to 44 bust. 
off in a disorderly heap and left until 
their owner happens to think of them. 
Make the boys’ room as bright and cheery 
as you can and encourage them to adorn 
it with all their treasures. Their book¬ 
case may occupy one corner, baseball 
clubs and hockey sticks another, and but¬ 
terfly cases, curious birds’ nests, and all 
the other clutter dear to boyish hearts, 
many find places there. I he lads will 
then feel the pride and interest of real 
ownership in their room, and this helps 
wonderfully in the irksome task of “clear- 
The Rural Patterns. 
A very pretty bathing suit is shown in 
No. 5374. In the case of the original it 
is made with a big sailor collar, the ma¬ 
terial being black Sicilian mohair with 
trimming of black and white banding, but 
many swimmers object to collars, and the 
neck is so arranged that it can be cut out 
on a square outline and finished plain as 
shown in the small view, while the shield 
can be worn or omitted as individual 
preference may decide. 1 he puffed 
sleeves, gathered into bands, are liked, but 
loose ones are included in the design. 
In addition to the mohair, serge, taffeta, 
and, indeed all the materials used for 
bathing suits will be found suitable. The 
suit is made with the knickerbockers and 
waist portion, which are in one, and the 
skirt. The waist portion is full below a 
smooth yoke and the knickerbockers are 
generously full, and there are tapes inserted 
in, a casing at the waist line that serve to 
regulate the size. The skirt is circular, 
laid in inverted pleats at the back and 
fitted with darts over the hips. It is quite 
separate and attached to a belt. The 
shield can be made of the same or some 
contrasting material and is entirely sep¬ 
arate from the suit, closing at the back 
with buttons and button-holes. When 
used, it is buttoned into place by means 
of button holes worked under the sailor 
collar and buttons attached to correspond. 
The quantity of material required for the 
medium size is 10J4 yards 31. 9*4 yards 
27 or 6*4 yards 44 inches wide, with 8j4 
yards for banding. The pattern 5374 is 
cut in sizes for a 34, 36. 38, 40, 42 and 
44-inch bust measure; price 10 cents. 
The pretty princess gown illustrated is 
made of white chiffon and trimmed with 
bands of taffeta edged with double frills 
of the material. The design however, will 
be found charming for silk voile, for crepe 
de Chine, crepe messaline, for many of 
the silks and cotton mixtures, and. indeed, 
for everything that is soft enough to shirr 
with success. When a simpler gown is 
desired yoke and cuffs of lace or other 
contrasting material can be added. The 
dress is made with a fitted lining which 
extends to the waist line and itself con¬ 
sists of front, side fronts, backs and side- 
backs, all of which are joined and shirred 
on indicated lines, the closing being made 
invisibly at the back. The sleeves are 
moderately full puffs and are shirred at 
their lower edges. Trimming of any sort 
that may be liked can be used on the skirt, 
little frills, bandings of lace or of ribbon 
or of some contrasting fabric, this last 
being a recent and well-liked novelty. The 
quantity of material required for the me¬ 
dium size, without trimming, is 15 yards 
21, 14 yards 27 or 8*4 yards 44 inches 
wide. The pattern 5376 is cut in sizes for 
a 32, 34, 36, 38 and 40-inch bust measure; 
price 10 cents : _ 
We live here in a narrow dwelling 
house which presses us in on all sides, 
and yet we fancy it is the whole universe. 
But when the door opens and a loved one 
passes out. never to return, we, too, step 
to the door and look out in the distance 
and realize then how small and empty the 
dwelling is, and how a larger, more beau¬ 
tiful world waits for us without. How 
it is in that larger world, who can say? 
But if we were so happy in the narrow 
dwelling, how much more happy shall we 
be out there. The stars which without 
their own contrivance have met will meet 
again.—Prof. Max Muller. 
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6376 ,Seven Gored Shirred Brincesse Gown, 
32 40 bust. 
ing up.” There arc men who shun an 
mipty water pail and wood box as though 
they feared that any work done about the 
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