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October 12, 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
From Day to Day. 
THE OrEN WEST. 
Sponge the silk on both sides with the 
“What did’st thou see by the road, O brother? 
What did’st thou see by the road to-day?” 
I saw wide fields of gold and green ; 
I saw tail trees and the silken sheen 
Of living leaves, like a living screen 
From Orient lands, all gold and green. 
“What did st thou see by the road, O brother? 
What dld'st thou see hy the road to-day?” 
An oriole flash ids orange breast 
From bough to bough in hungry quest— 
They were three wide beaks in his nest. 
I saw the flash of his orange breast. 
“The road o'er the hills is far, O brother— 
What did'st thou see by the road to-day?” 
1 saw a little beast lie dead 
Nigh the burrowed house whence erst it sped 
For store of yellow corn and red ; 
Oh, pitiful, to see it dead ! 
“No more did’st thou see by the road, 
O brother— 
The far, far road o'er the prairie hills?” 
Silhouette ’gainst the blue, blue skies 
I saw a fleece-white heron rise, 
While fleece-white clouds flew heron-wise 
O’er the blue, blue prairies of the skies. 
—From “The Mid Earth Life,” 
by H. B. Alexander. 
* 
It may interest some mothers to learn 
that we can supply many patterns for 
dolls’ garments, though we have not pub¬ 
lished any so far, because our space for 
patterns is so limited. These patterns are 
made in three sizes, for dolls 18, 22 and 26 
inches high. A recent pattern. No. 5794, 
is a set of doll’s underwear, four pieces. 
This would he found very useful in dress¬ 
ing Christmas dolls, while other patterns 
give doll’s skirt and shirt waist, and lady 
doll’s costumes. 
* 
We saw some pretty new college hat¬ 
bands recently, which suggest an idea for 
the football season. They were made of 
felt, cut the width of the usual ribbon; 
in the front a small square of contrasting 
color was stitched on, and on this the 
college initial in the same color as the 
band. Thus, for Princeton the hand was 
black, with an orange square in front, on 
which was the letter P in black. The let¬ 
ters are stitched on flat with machine, the 
felt needing no turnings, as it is too firm 
to ravel. 
* 
The Woman’s Home Companion for 
October says that down on a southern plan^ 
tation the dairy hands were accustomed 
to do the milking squatting down in a 
primitive fashion, until the owner intro¬ 
duced milking stools with other improve¬ 
ments. But the initial experiment with' 
the innovation was not exactly a success. 
The darky who first sallied forth with the 
stool returned bruised and battered and 
with an empty pail. 
“I done my best, sah,” be exclaimed. 
“Dat stool looked all right to me, but de 
blamed cow she won’t sit on it!” 
* 
The new Fall style of a plain coat with 
a plaid or striped skirt is a very useful 
mode, which will help economical women 
to freshen up their wardrobes. Either 
black or colored jackets are worn with 
the plaid skirts, but if colored they must 
of course harmonize with the tones of 
the plaid. If one had a dark blue or 
green suit last Winter, the jacket can be 
worn with a blue and green plaid skirt, 
thus giving an attractive change. A sim¬ 
ple skirt and waist suit of plaid or check 
will be very nice to wear with the plain 
Winter coat. 
♦ 
Here is a method of renovating old' 
silk, given by a correspondent of Harper’s 
Bazar: Put two ounces of alcohol, a 
tablespoonful of mucilage or strained 
honev, a rounded tablespoonful of soft 
soan (dissolve a small piece of good qual¬ 
ity in water), and two cups of soft water 
in a bottle, and shake until well mixed. 
mixture, rubbing well, and then shake up 
and down in a tub of cold or cool water, 
neither rubbing nor wringing. Hold by 
the edge and flap off the water, pin the 
edges to the line, and while still damp iron 
between cloths or paper with an iron only 
moderately hot. 
Rice flour pound cake is very delicate 
in texture; the following is a fine southern 
recipe: Cream one-quarter of a cup of 
butter with one cup of powdered sugar; 
add the beaten yolks of two eggs, one 
teaspoonful of vanilla, the grated rind of 
a lemon and one-half cupful of cold 
water. Mix thoroughly and add one and 
one-half cupfuls of rice flour that has 
been sifted twice with one and one-half 
teaspoonfuls of baking powder. Add the 
whites beaten stiff. Bake in small tins. 
Cover with frosting. To one egg white 
use one-eighth of a pound of powdered 
sugar. Beat with even steady strokes and 
flavor with any desired flavoring. 
* 
A reader asks how to dry Lima beans, 
and also whether they should be dried 
green or mature. We usually pick our 
beans quite closely, and merely save a few 
that ripen, keeping them like the small 
white beans, but the green beans can be 
dried to retain a very high quality. They 
are shelled, and set on the stove in cold 
water. As soon as the water begins to 
simmer they are taken off, drained and 
spread out in the sun to dry. Without 
the heating in water the beans are apt to 
become slippery and mold, instead of dry¬ 
ing. We would advise drying on a mus¬ 
lin frame, as recommended for corn, as 
this permits drying from below as well 
as above, and the process is thus short¬ 
ened. ___ 
Hints for the Home Sewing- 
Table. 
The following ideas will be helpful to 
the busy housewife who does her own sew¬ 
ing. When cutting out garments try us¬ 
ing a table large enough to hold the 
whole pattern, in place of the customary 
inconvenient little “cutting ’ tables. In¬ 
stead of pinning, put paper weights at 
necessary points on the pattern; this 
keeps the cloth from slipping, is more 
quickly done, and ensures more accurate 
cutting. Of course, a- few pins at particu¬ 
lar points may be necessary. 
After cutting garments from thin white 
material or dark silk, cut as many 
straight and bias strips about an inch 
wide as you can from the scraps; fold 
rifeatly and put in your work basket. It 
is so convenient to have them ready and 
they are handy in a multitude of ways 
in the finishing of garments. 
In making white waists and under¬ 
clothes for myself and the children I 
make the buttonholes on an extra strip 
which is stitched on under a fold of cloth 
to hide the buttoning. When a garment 
is worn out the buttonholes are often 
still in good condition, so they are ripped 
out and used again at a great saving of 
work. 
A small aluminum ruler is much more 
convenient for measuring folds, hems, 
etc., than a tape. 
A very neat way to finish everyday tray 
cloths, pillow cases and ruffles for under¬ 
clothing is to draw threads as for hem- 
sitching, baste the hem so that it reaches 
about half way across the drawn portion, 
and stitch along the edge on the machine, 
having the tension rather loose and the 
stitch of good length. When the stitch¬ 
ing is done draw the hem back to its 
proper position, and the result will be a 
very pretty hem which will scarcely be 
detected from hemstitching and at com¬ 
paratively little work. When desiring to 
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do the hemstitching by hand, take to the 
machine after the hem is basted in place, 
and stitch along the edge with unthreaded 
needle. By following the perforations 
you are saved the tiresome counting of 
threads, yet your work will be perfectly 
even. Most busy women object to draw¬ 
ing the threads for hemstitching—which 
forms such a dainty and inexpensive 
mode of trimming—but if a cake of white 
toilet soap be rubbed across the wrong 
side of the material the threads can be 
drawn quickly and easily. 
I find nothing else so neat for work 
dresses as shirtwaist dresses of percale 
or gingham, but I always wear out the 
waists much sooner than the skirts. To 
remedy this I now make two waists like 
each skirt, wearing them alternately so 
that, if the material fades, all will look 
alike. This is a great saving of material 
and sewing as well as washing and iron¬ 
ing, for I usually soil both waists before 
the skirt needs laundering. 
When looking over the clean clothes 
from the washing I find the required 
patches and buttons for the mending, fold 
them in the garment, and place the pile 
on my sewing table. It is so much easier 
to pick up the mending at odd moments 
when everything is ready. When mend¬ 
ing the large holes in the children’s stock-' 
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and darn through that, trimming the 
edges away neatly when the work is 
finished. This is quickly done, and looks 
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