1907. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
247 
Mrs. Spraker Talks. 
From time to time Mrs. Spraker 
glanced uneasily toward the stove. We 
were sitting in the kitchen, as I was 
doing some work there when she came in 
and she insisted that I should not stop. 
At length she spoke. 
“It is none of my business,” she said, 
5646 Child's Dress, 2 to 6 years. 
“but would you mind telling me if you 
like this steamy atmosphere?” 
“I hate it,” I answered promptly. “I 
think it makes one more likely to take 
cold and it steams the windows up and 
makes the walls damp.” 
“I thought you must like it, or you 
would not have it,“ said Mrs. Spraker. 
I loked at her in surprise. “I’ve got 
to boil that meat, so how can I avoid the 
steam ?” 
For answer she went to the stove, 
lifted the kettle from the hole in which 
it had been set, put the cover on, moved 
the kettle to a cooler part of the stove 
and stood a moment watching it. Then 
she came back to her seat. Instead of 
6591 Girl’s Guimpe Dress, 
8 to 14 years. 
the violent commotion that had been go¬ 
ing on in the kettle, there was but a 
gentle, steady bubbling, and the dense 
cloud of steam that had been arising from 
it was reduced to a slight vapor. 
“But—” I began. 
“Your piece of meat,” said Mrs. 
Spraker calmly, “is cooking just exactly 
as fast as it was before, and just see the 
difference in the steam.” 
“But,” I said, “It isn’t boiling as fast.” 
“No,” she said, “but it is just as hot. 
It is boiling good and hard now. The 
faster water boils, the more it evaporates, 
and as long as the steam escapes it can’t 
be any hotter than the boiling point. So 
don’t you see, such furious boiling just 
makes the room damp and nothing else.” 
“I always had an idea that the faster 
anything boiled the faster it was cooking,” 
I said, not quite convinced. 
Mrs. Spraker smiled. “You had bet¬ 
ter get over that idea,” she said. 
SUSAN B. ROBBINS. 
The Rural Patterns. 
A pretty one-piece dress is shown in 
No. 5546, suitable for little boys or girls. 
The dress is made with fronts and back 
and is closed invisibly under the box- 
plait, at the left side for girls, at the right 
for boys. The sleeves are comfortably 
full and are tucked to form cuffs at their 
lower edges while the collar is of the 
turn-over sort that can be either sewed 
fast or attached by means of buttonholes 
and studs. The quantity of material re¬ 
quired for the medium size (four years) 
is 3 yards 27, 2(4 yards 36 or 2 yards 44 
inches wide with (4 yard of linen for the 
collar. The pattern 5546 is cut in sizes 
for children of 2, 4 and 6 years of age; 
price, 10 cents. 
The dress that gives a guimpe effect is 
a favorite one of the season and takes 
almost innumerable variations. Here is 
a pretty little model that can be utilized 
in a variety of ways and that can be made 
to give more or less of the guimpe idea 
as it is treated after one fashion or an¬ 
other. As illustrated it is made of a 
pretty plaid material with the yoke of 
tucking and is trimmed with velvet, the 
arms-eye edges of the lining being faced 
while the waist portion is separate, so 
giving the popular guimpe suggestions. 
But it can be made to take still more of 
this effect by making the sleeves and the 
facing to match the yoke while waist and 
skirt are of contrasting material or again 
the arms-eye facings can be done away 
with altogether and the dress made with 
a pretty contrasting yoke, while the 
sleeves are stitched to waist and lining 
together. There is a body lining and this 
body lining is faced to form a yoke and 
at the arms-eyes when so desired. The 
waist itself is made with front and backs 
and the quite novel trimming portion is 
arranged under its upper edge. When 
used with the arms-eye facings it is cut 
out to form large armholes, but without 
these it is cut to the same size as the lin¬ 
ing, and its edges are included in the 
arms-eye seams. The skirt is five gored 
and is laid in a succession of backward¬ 
turning plaits that are stitched flat for a 
short distance below the waistline. The 
two are joined and the closing is made 
invisibly at the back. The quantity of 
material required for the medium size (12 
years) is 6(4 yards 27, 5(4 yards 36 or 4 
yards 44 inches wide with 1(4 yards of 
bias velvet and 24 yard of tucking to 
make as illustrated. The pattern 5591 is 
cut in sizes for girls of 8, JO, 12 and 14 
years of age; price, 10 cents. 
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My Index is useful to every 
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