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August 17, 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
The Rural Patterns. 
No. 5728 shows a very simple one- 
piece house gown, which gives the trim 
appearance often lacking in a wrapper.! 
The gown is made with the blouse por- : 
tion and the skirt. The blouse combines 
From Day to Day. 
REST WHERE YOU ARE. 
Whf*n spurred by tasks unceasing or undone 
You would seek rest afar, 
And cannot, though repose be rightly won, 
Rest where you are. 
Neglect the needless; sanctify the rest; 
Move without stress or jar; 
With quiet of a spirit self-possessed. 
Rest where you are. 
Not in event, restriction, or release, 
Not in scenes near or far, 
Rut in ourselves are restlessness or peace, 
Rest where you are. 
—Credit Lost. 
* 
Red raspberries chilled in a freezer are 
delicious on a hot day. Pour a cupful of 
orange juice and two cupfuls of sugar 
over the berries, put into the packed freez¬ 
er 30 minutes, and then serve. Try to 
avoid mashing the berries. 
* 
We were told recently of a learned 
clergyman of the Anglican Church in 
Canada who is a very thoughtful and stu¬ 
dious man, but very absentminded. One 
morning he was going from home and had 
his handbag packed and left in the hall, 
as he intended to walk to the railway sta¬ 
tion. After he had left the house his 
daughter came into the hall and saw the 
bag still there, and said to her mother: 
“Oh, mother, father has gone off and left 
his bag behind. I will run after him with 
it.” Which she did, and when she arrived 
at the station she found the canon walk¬ 
ing about with the coal scuttle, which he 
had taken up in place of his bag. 
* 
Scotch woodcock is a most appetizing 
egg dish. Boil half a.dozen eggs 20 min¬ 
utes, then lay them in cold water. When 
cool enough to handle, slice them into a 
plate and chop them fine with a silver 
knife. Put two tablespoonfuls of butter 
into a smooth frying pan, and as soon as 
melted add one tablespoonful of flour. 
Stir until the mixture is frothy, taking care 
that it does not brown. Now, stir in little 
by little half a pint of warm milk, using 
the back of the bowl of the spoon and 
not the edge. Stir constantly until it boils, 
then add one tablespoonful of anchovy 
paste, half a teaspoonful of salt and a 
grain of cayenne. Cook just a moment, 
add the chopped eggs, cook three minutes, 
and serve on toast. 
* 
The National Educational Association 
recently in session at Los Angeles, passed 
a resolution regarding the prevailing 
faults in children who come under the 
care of the teachers there assembled. The 
four counts in the teachers’ indictment 
are as follows: 
A tendency toward a disregard for consti¬ 
tuted authority. 
A lack of respect for age and superior 
wisdom. 
A weak appreciation of the demands of 
duty. 
A disposition to follow pleasure and in- 
teiest rather than obligation and order. 
We fear that the last two counts may 
apply to a good many, besides the chil¬ 
dren, nor can they be called national fail¬ 
ings only. But the disregard for consti¬ 
tuted authority, and the lack of respect 
for age, do seem a feature of American 
life. We meet them in all classes of so¬ 
ciety, and under all circumstances; experi¬ 
ence, character and integrity are ordered 
aside for impatient youth. It is not sur¬ 
prising that uneducated parents so often 
show a pathetic subservience to the chil¬ 
dren whose higher culture results from 
parental toil and self-sacrifice, but there 
is no reason at all why this should be a 
national attitude. We still think that there 
is one thing even more inspiring and im¬ 
pressive than the intelligent, quick-witted 
and well-educated American boy or girl, 
and that is the father or mother, perhaps 
imperfectly educated, homely and toil- 
worn, whose unsatisfied thirst for knowl¬ 
edge has bloomed out in the advantages 
given to a younger generation. 
* 
It will not be long before the children’s 
school clothes will need attention. Sum¬ 
mer clothes open the school term, but be¬ 
fore long heavier materials will be in de¬ 
mand, and it is wise to plan things ahead. 
The various forms of the jumper dress, 
which still stay in vogue, are very suit¬ 
able for girls of all ages, and especially 
when trying to make old garments into 
new'. Where material is scant a sleeve¬ 
less jumper with’large armholes, or bre- 
telles joined by straps, worn over a white 
waist, makes a smart-looking dress, with 
very little more material than is needed 
for a separate skirt. Such a dress may 
be trimmed on both skirt and waist with 
straps of contrasting material, a plaid on 
a plain material, or vice versa, with very 
good effect. We have seen many pretty 
plaid gingham jumper dresses, trimmed 
with bands of the predominating color. 
Blue and white, black and white or brown 
and white gingham, trimmed with bands 
of the solid color, are very pretty; so are 
coin-spotted materials, white spots on a 
solid ground, trimmed in the same way. 
The same idea will be carried out in 
woolen materials; plaid trimmed with 
plain bands is sure to be in style. A use¬ 
ful plaid woolen dress, with a jumper, 
worn over a white waist, is much more 
dressy than other styles, while simple and 
easily made. 
Toothache. 
Why will people suffer day after day 
with the toothache? What do they think 
they gain by it? I know a woman who 
has troublesome teeth. She was advised 
to have them out. “Oh,” she said, “I can’t 
go and have them out, I dread it so!” 
Now, if she had visited the dentist and 
taken a little gas, she could have had all 
those teeth out without feeling it. No 
doubt for that day she would have felt 
pretty miserable and perhaps for a week 
she would not have had the best of feel¬ 
ings, but after that she would have im¬ 
proved and would have been troubled no 
more with aching teeth. Instead of that, 
however, she clung desperately to those 
teeth. Again and again through the Win¬ 
ter she would have terrible times with 
them. They would ulcerate, and she 
would walk the floor with the pain. Once 
she even fainted away from the suffering. 
What has she gained by keeping her 
teeth? They will come just as hard when 
they are pulled, and probably harder, as 
they are in a worse condition and the 
danger of crumbling is greater. 
Toothache is very hard to bear, and if 
parents care for their children they should 
do all they can to save them from it. If 
the teeth are fairly good to start with, 
and are kept clean, and all cavities filled 
by a trustworthy dentist as soon as they 
appear, there is no regson why the aver¬ 
age human being should ever know much 
about toothache. If a tooth once begins 
to ache, there are three courses open to 
the sufferer: Go to the dentist and have 
it treated ;«it is expensive and painful, but 
'if the tooth is valuable, it will pay. Or 
one can go and have the tooth pulled; it 
hurts intolerably for a moment, unless an 
anaesthetic is used, and then there is no 
further trouble ever again from that par¬ 
ticular tooth. The third course is to let 
it ache and ulcerate as many times as 
one likes, and finally some time in the 
future have it out. One point should be 
remembered; if one chooses the heroic 
method the tooth should be extracted just 
as soon as it begins to ache, for there is 
danger of serious trouble if an ulcerated 
tooth is pulled, susan brown robbins. 
a plain back with fronts that are tucked 
at the shoulders and is finished with the 
collar joined to the neck, while the sleeves 
are gathered into bands. '1 he skirt is 
made in five gores and is gathered at the 
upper edge. The belt connects the two, 
the closing being made at the left front. 
The quantity of material required for the 
medium size is 11J4 yards 27 inches wide, 
9 % yards 32 inches wide or 6(4 yards 44 
inches wide with 5% yards of banding. 
The pattern No. 5728 is cut in sizes for 
5742 House Gown or Wrapper, 
34 t^42 bust, 
a 34, 36, 38, 40 and 42-inch bust measure; 
price 10 cents. 
A more elaborate house gown is shown 
in No. 5742. The dress is made with 
blouse and skirt portion. The.blouse con¬ 
sists of fronts and back and can be cut 
out to form the square neck as illustrated 
and finished with a band, or made with a 
little chemisette and collar, as shown in 
the small view. The skirt is five gored 
and gathered at its upper edge and is 
joined to the lower edge of the belt. The 
.two are closed together at the center 
front. The elbow sleeves are made in 
one piece but the long sleeves are made 
with upper and under portions. The quan¬ 
tity of material required for the medium 
size is 9 yards 27 inches wide, 7(4 yards 
32 inches wide or 5 yards 44 inches wide 
with 17 yards of insertion, 2(4 yards of 
beading and 5 yards of edging to trim as 
illustrated. The pattern No. 5742 is cut 
in sizes for a 34, 36, 38, 40 and 42-inch 
bust measure; price 10 cents. 
Expedients on a New Ranch. 
Many are just opening up a farm as we 
were a few years ago; there are so many 
necessities, and money comes in slowly, 
consequently conveniences get overlooked. 
Fourteen years ago our 40 acres was heav¬ 
ily timbered, so the head of the house 
must be excused if my kitchen was not 
very convenient. I had lived for years in 
town, and was accustomed to a sink for 
waste water, and I found myself counting 
up the number of pails of water, 10 or 12 
a day, weighing 30 pounds, to be carried 
60 feet, and that did not include wash 
water. I kept thinking, “If I hold out it 
won’t be so in the new house.” It seems 
strange to me that many farmhouses have 
no way for waste water from kitchen to 
run off; it is either carried out or thrown 
from kitchen door, making an unsightly 
and unhealthy place. One day I had a 
happy thought, and being something of a 
carpenter (I can manage to drive a nail) 
before night I had a substitute for a sink. 
I took a five-gallon oil can and soldered 
a tube on lower side long enough to go 
through wall of kitchen, to carry water 
from can to spout outside. With can 
opener I cut upper side of can all around 
except end towards wall, bringing the tin 
lid up to wall and fastening to protect 
wall from spatters. The can was on table 
or shelf of convenient height, and the 
inside work was all completed. For the 
outside drain I took two narrow boards 
and nailed together V-shape, having sup¬ 
ports of necessary height cut in the same 
shape to receive the drain. These sup¬ 
ports, sharpened at one end, were driven 
in the ground, giving them the proper 
slope so the water would run freely. It 
is a comfort to know that these open 
drains are the healthiest, and if they are 
just laid on supports and not fastened 
together it saves lots of heavy work to 
take out a section on wash day and let 
the water run off from washing machine 
or tub. If you wash in kitchen you can 
use sink, but here in our mild climate 
(Washington) Summer and Winter I 
wash out of doors on back porch. If your 
tub has not been fixed to run off water 
from side near bottom have it done at 
once or do it yourself. With auger bore 
a hole in middle of one of the boards; 
make a plug from end of broom handle, 
and tack a piece of tin around lower half 
of hole. The water can run out much 
easier than you can lift it out. 
Have plenty of shelf room in the 
kitchen. A nail in the wall has saved 
me many hours of work in my butter 
making. Don’t churn your butter into 
a solid mass, but stop when it is in small 
grains. Take a yard of cheesecloth, lay 
in bowl and turn the contents of churn 
in cloth; hang up to drain from butter¬ 
milk and rest yourself. Let down in about 
15 minutes and wash with cold water 
until water runs off clear; each time hang 
it up to drain, then salt, and if you don’t 
let your cream gej over sour in pan or 
churn your butter will command the high¬ 
est price in the market. 
The children are no worry to mother 
if they are in good company, and we 
think a dog is always that; besides, our 
purebred Scotch collie dogs have bought 
a Brussels carpet for parlor, some fine sil¬ 
ver for table, a gold watch for the mis¬ 
tress, a suit of clothes for the master, and 
$250 in cash to help open up the ranch! 
MRS. KATIE GRANT. 
