1907. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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The Rural Patterns. 
An extremely pretty tucked waist is 
shown in No. 5613. The waist is made 
with fronts and back and is finished with 
a regulation box plait at the front edge. 
When made with round neck the collar 
is joined to the waist but when the neck 
is cut high it is finished with a neck-band 
and t’he high roll-over collar is made 
separately and attached to it by means 
of button-holes and studs. The sleeves 
5613 Blouse or Shirt Waist, 32 to 44 bust 
are of moderate fullness and can be fin¬ 
ished with roll-over cuffs below the el¬ 
bows or with deep ones that extend tfo 
the wrists as preferred. The quantity of 
material required for the medium size is 
3$4 yards 27, 3% yards 36 or 2 yards 44 
inches wide. The pattern 5613 is cut in 
sizes for a 32, 34, 36, 38, 40, 42 and 44- 
inch bust measure; price 10 cents. 
A plain gored skirt is useful for sim¬ 
ple wash dresses. No. 5622 is cut . in 
seven gores, these gores being carefully 
shaped to give the fashionable full effect 
at the lower edge and is joined to the 
belt. When gathered the closing should 
be made at the center back, but when in¬ 
verted plaits are used it can be made 
cither at that point or beneath the plait 
at the left side. The quantity of material 
required for the medium size is 8J4 yards 
27, 5 yards 44 or 52 inches wide when 
material has figure or nap; 6^4 yards 27, 
3J/2 yards 44 or 3 yards 52 inches wide 
5622 Seven Gored Skirt. 24 to 36 waist. 
when it has not, with 7 yards of braid 
to trim as illustrated. The pattern 5622 
is cut in sizes for a 24,.26, 28, 30, 32, 34 
and 36-inch waist measure; price 10 cents. 
Charity Sweetheart’s Letters. 
Jennie Lindsay came over to call the 
other day, and as we sat in the afternoon 
with some sewing she picked up the Jan¬ 
uary Harper’s Bazar that one of the hotel 
boarders had sent me from the city. 
There was a marked page that was a libel 
upon farmers’ homes in many instances, 
though there are plenty where it is true 
that women of a farm live, breathe and 
have their being in household labor. 
There are other statements, too, that are 
untrue, but the worst thing about it is the 
demoralizing effect such statements have 
upon the country girls. For though it is 
known that we have a regular round of 
duties to perform, why are they held up 
for public inspection any more than our 
city cousins and aunts? I asked Jennie 
if she thought it making life “take prece¬ 
dence of labor’’ when her cousins spent 
the spare time playing “bridge” and mak¬ 
ing calls of ceremony. In households of 
moderate means in the city the head of 
the family cannet always afford to hire 
the pickling and preserving and Fall sew¬ 
ing done while the members of the fam¬ 
ily look idly on, neither can country folk. 
There is a great deal of bosh written 
upon this subject, and instead of being a 
reproach of unremitting toil, it seemed to 
me a pleasant picture when I read: “The 
women of the two households visit back 
and forth a great deal; in the morning 
they carry over the peas to shell, or the 
potatoes to pare, while they visit; in the 
afternoon it is the mending basket or the 
fruit to get ready to preserve.” And why 
not ? Any of the things mentioned are 
as interesting and more useful than the 
pack of cards that are so often admitted 
as part of a social afternoon. So Jennie 
and I thought we would some day write 
an indignation article on the subject, and 
that such sentiments as expressed in the 
one quoted showed a lack of knowledge 
of the up-to-date methods of farmers’ 
wives and daughters in this year of our 
Lord 1907. Isolation there is, and want 
of concentration in our recreations, but 
we are better women than our mothers 
were, and the march of progress reaches 
even the most remote sections of country. 
Libraries and clubs and the rural tele¬ 
phone have changed many things that city 
writers do not seem to realize or under¬ 
stand. 
When I have a little time for dreaming 
I spend it over the Spring catalogues that 
are coming in. As I look at the lists of 
seeds and plants, and the tempting illus¬ 
trations, the thought comes to my mind 
that we do not half appreciate the work 
of getting them up. Think of the trouble 
it must be every year to select and classify; 
then when they come from the printers 
there is a great deal of time necessary to 
wrap up and address them, all on a chance 
of luring a customer. Talk about shelling 
peas—it is a peaceful and restful employ¬ 
ment compared with what must be done 
in a busy office before these horticultural 
novelties come to us. Winter is a good 
time to study this department of garden¬ 
ing, and if we can only profit by our mis¬ 
takes of former years, and plant what is 
most likely to succeed, we shall have at¬ 
tained something that will be of benefit. 
For, as in everything else in life, experi¬ 
ence is the best teacher even in the garden. 
CHARITY SWEETHEART. 
Concerning Wall Sanitation. 
The farm home docs not present a very 
different problem from the city dwelling 
on the subject of wall sanitation. The 
abundance of fresh air and lack of the 
city’s dirt and dust do not make up for a 
disregard of sanitary laws in house finish¬ 
ing. It is not wise to neglect taking 
proper precautions from too much reli¬ 
ance on the efficacy of country air and the 
traditional healthfulness of rural life. 
Many houses are little better than air¬ 
tight boxes. Windows are rarely opened, 
especially in the Winter, and the walls 
covered with several thickneses of paper 
are absolutely impervious to any stray bit 
of air which might help to rectify matters. 
There is not the difference one would sup¬ 
pose between the health of the city and 
country dweller. Consumption is distress¬ 
ingly prevalent on farms as well as in the 
towns. As the rural districts have the 
inestimable advantage of fresh pure air 
out of doors, the trouble must come from 
within. To a great extent this may be 
traced to the unsanitary condition of the 
walls. Many layers of paper form the 
best of germ-breeding locations. Usually 
as much of the interior work as possible 
is left to the women of the house. The 
wall papering must be done by the house¬ 
keeper, and she being a woman of multi¬ 
farious duties, too often has not the time 
nor strength to remove every scrap of 
former paper, and cleanse the remaining 
surface. Consequently the new is pasted 
over the old. 
Country as well as city homes are not 
always as thoroughly fumigated after con¬ 
tagious diseases, as they should be, and 
with walls heavily coated with wall paper, 
what disinfection is done is of little 
value, it being impossible to reach germs 
lodged in many layers of paste and glue. 
The proper wall finish should be of such 
a nature that it may be easily applied. A 
substance of thoroughly antiseptic quali¬ 
ties is of course the only one that should 
be used. A coating of calcic sulphate 
foundation (gypsum or plaster of Paris) 
soluble in cold water furnishes all the 
desirable elements for perfect wall clean¬ 
liness. It is applied with a brush and 
does not stop up the pores of the wall that 
furnishes ventilation. Each successive ap¬ 
plication unites with the previous one, 
thus obviating the necessity for laborious 
scrapings. 
Aside from the purely practical side of 
wall finishing there is the question of 
beauty and comfort. Many farmhouses 
are deficient in lighting facilities. One 
lamp is often all there is to illuminate a 
good-sized room. This does not encour¬ 
age pleasant family intercourse in the 
evenings, and the young people are all 
too ready to consider the dullness unbear¬ 
able and unnecessary. Walls of bright, 
cheerful tones do much to improve the 
comfort and beauty of a room. If a room 
does not have its full share of light a 
wall coating of a delicate tint should be 
used, which will make the most of all the 
light there is. It is just as easy to have 
homes sanitary and inviting as the oppo¬ 
site, and the advantages are innumerable. 
There will be an improvement in health 
and happiness strongly apparent. The 
housewife will find her labor greatly les¬ 
sened both in applying the material, and 
afterwards in the greater ease with which 
perfect cleanliness is attained. 
CLAUDTA Q. MURPHY. 
Sweet Cucumber Pickles. —F. W. B. 
asks for recipe for cucumber pickles. I 
have one I have never seen in print; it 
is very good indeed. Put cucumbers in 
cold weak brine ( V/ 2 cup salt to one 
gallon water) one day and night. Take 
out. dry on cloth. To one gallon vinegar 
add two cups sugar, nearly one ounce 
mixed spice. Heat these all boiling hot. 
Put in pickles and let boil up once. Put 
in cans immediately and pour the hot 
vinegar over them. They are nice and 
sw'eet, and wil keep a long time, till eaten. 
These will not shrivel if you follow direc¬ 
tions. One gallon vinegar will cover two 
gallons cucumbers. mrs. c. h. g. 
My lamp-chimneys break 
through abuse—not through 
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