1006. 
THE RURAL 
NEW-YORKER. 
7o3 
Mrs. Spraker Talks. 
“Going to iron?" I asked, as Mrs. 
Spraker pushed a flat-iron to the front 
of the stove and brought out her board. 
“She shook her'head. “I’m going to 
make some sheets.” she said, and I 
5420 Fancy Blouse Waist. 
32 to 40 bust- 
watched her in silence as she brought out 
the cotton cloth and began to unfold it. 
“I get them to tear the sheets off for 
me at the store,” she said. “They can do 
it easier than I can, and it saves me the 
trouble of measuring.” 
She laid one of the unhemmed sheets 
on the ironing board, and with the flat- 
iron, which was now hot, she turned the 
hem rapidly and deftly. “I may be old- 
fashioned,” she said, “but I do like a nar¬ 
row hem at the bottom best, and at the 
top I like a good wide one.” She took a 
cardboard measure from her work-basket 
and at the other end of the sheet pressed 
a wide hem. 
“How quickly you do it,” I said. 
“Yes,” she answered, “much quicker 
than I could sew it, and I save time in 
not having to pull out bastings, too.” She 
put the iron back on the stove, and seat¬ 
ing herself at the machine stitched the 
hems swiftly. Three sheets she hemmed 
in this way, then sewed over and over the 
ends of the wide hems. 
“There,” she said, when this was done, 
“three sheets made. I won’t have to 
make any more for two years, I’m so 
well stocked.” 
“I’ve heard it said that if you make 
two every year you never will run short.” 
“I know, but 1 make three for two 
years and then skip a year; it amounts 
to the same thing. You see, it takes three 
sheets to keep a bed going, and when I 
begin to use these heavy unbleached 
sheets I want to keep them on all the 
time.” 
“You believe in the unbleached sheet¬ 
ing?” 
“I certainly do. I prefer to do my own 
wearing out of things and get the good 
of them. Bleached sheeting is partly 
worn out when you get it. Besides, these 
will bleach out pretty soon.” 
“And you get the double width sheet¬ 
ing?” 
1 like ’em so they'll turn over good at the 
top and keep the blankets clean, and tuck 
in good at the bottom so as not to pull 
out. A short sheet is an abomination." 
“And how wide do you have them,” 
“Two yards and a quarter, and it’s none 
too wide. I like to tuck the lower sheet 
in so that it is good and tight and 
smooth.” 
“I’m going to write this down so as 
not to forget it the next time I have to 
make sheets,” I said, as I arose to go 
home. susan b. robbins. 
The Rural Patterns. 
No matter how good your 
lamp, a Macbeth chimney 
makes it better. 
They are made to fit, and 
do not break from heat. 
My lamp-chimneys offer 
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all lamp-ills-—good glass prop- 
Mrs. Spraker looked at me over the 
tops of her glasses and her lips tight¬ 
ened. “I rather think I do,” she said 
crisply. “If I should be cast away on a 
desert island or had to serve a term in 
prison I might possibly sew up sheets but 
I can’t imagine any other circumstances 
where I’d do such a thing. There’s too 
much else in this world that’s worth do¬ 
ing to waste time and eyesight that way. 
Why, in the time it has taken me to make 
these three sheets I might possiblv have 
sewed up half a seam of one and now 
5434 Boy’s Russian Suit, 
2 to G years. 
these are all done. Oh, I know all the 
arguments about turning sheets, but 1 
find that mine get pretty well worn out 
all over before I get through with them.” 
“How much cloth do you get for a 
sheet?” I asked. 
“Three yards.” 
“That’s awfully long.” 
She nodded. “They shrink some, and 
The round yoke waist shown is a very 
pretty style, especially for girlish figures. 
There is a lining which is fitted to the 
figure, and the waist itself consists of 
the front, backs and yoke. The front is 
cut to form extensions and both front 
and backs are laid in one box plait at 
each shoulder while the trimming straps 
are arranged under those extensions and 
under the upper portions. The sleeves 
are the prevailing ones that are moder¬ 
ately full and can be finished at the el¬ 
bows with bands or extended to the wrists 
as may be liked. The quantity of mate¬ 
rial required for the medium size is 3 1 /? 
yards 21, 3yards 27 or \ 7 /% yards 44 
inches wide with *4 yard of all-over lace 
for the yoke, 1 yard when long sleeves 
are used, / 2 yard of silk for the bands. 
The pattern 5429 is cut in sizes for a 32, 
34, 36, 38 and 40-inch bust measure; 
price 10 cents. 
The attractive Russian suit shown is 
made with blouse and knickerbockers. 
The blouse consists of fronts and back 
and is closed well to the left side and 
held in position by the belt which is 
slipped under straps at the under-arm 
seams. The sleeves are tucked at the 
wrists, the tucks giving the effect of box 
plaits. The knickerbockers fit smoothly 
over the hips while the leg portions are 
comfortably full and are drawn up at 
the knees by means of elastic inserted in 
the hem. The quantity of material re¬ 
quired for the medium size (4 years) is 
3)4 yards 27, 2/ 2 yards 36 or 2 yards 44 
inches wide. The pattern 5434 is cut in 
sizes for boys of 2, 4 and 6 years of 
age; price 10 cents. 
erly made. That's why they 
make good lamps better. 
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