1907. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
4o3 
Another Grange Contest. 
' I am glad that Sister Adah Colcord 
gives us now and then a glimpse of their 
Grange work, and I wonder that more 
sisters do not follow her example. The 
R. N.-Y. must enter thousands of Grange 
homes, where anything pertaining to the 
work will be read with much interest. I 
am a member of Academy Grange, the 
oldest and largest Grange in Ontario 
County, N. Y. This Grange is said to be 
20 miles long, inasmuch as its member¬ 
ship covers the entire western side of 
Canandaigua Lake. This Winter we have 
had the usual routine work of a good 
working Grange, but some bright member 
conceived the idea of doing something 
new, so we have had an entertainment 
contest. That is, the sisters were lined 
up against the brothers, each side to pre¬ 
pare and produce a programme, and the 
defeated side was to give a banquet to the 
winners. The sisters gave their enter¬ 
tainment in the evening, and the severe 
weather and eight miles of bad road kept 
me from hearing it. For this reason 1 
am unable to give any details. The 
weather was more favorable when the 
brothers held forth, and we drove over 
to Cheshire to hear them. My! how the 
brothers worked. They sung, they fid¬ 
dled, they orated, they drilled and they 
lunched. They were in turn patriotic, 
sentimental, prophetic and sarcastic. They 
even introduced the ex-district attorney 
and his trained eloquence, and my heart 
sank as I said to myself, “Surely, the sis¬ 
ters never beat that.” We were some 
distance from home, and at the conclu¬ 
sion of their programme, night and a 
thick fog were settling down together, 
but still we lingered to hear the verdict 
of the judges. The brothers wore a sort 
of “I-am-monarch-of-all-I-survey” air 
while we waited, and went about telling 
us what they wanted served when we 
gave the banquet. When the judges 
finally announced that the sisters had won 
by a small fraction of a count, the yell 
that the sisters of Academy Grange put 
up would have done credit to any college 
class in the country. Some of them stood 
on chairs in order to yell with more tell- 
ine effect, and a few of the brothers made 
a lightning change of face and helped out 
a little with the cheering. Recently we 
enjoyed the banquet which was the fruit 
of our victory. So far as I know, not a 
sister saw the inside of the dining room 
until we were invited to march down¬ 
stairs, but I never saw the tables look 
prettier, and the brothers put on a few 
extra frills in the way of serving that 
surprised some of the sisters. Just as we 
were ready to leave the tables, the door 
opened, ancf the brothers, led by the 
worthy master, filed in and surrounded 
the four tables. The worthy master acted 
as toastmaster and Worthy Secretary 
L- responded to “Our Contest” with 
such a happy quotation from Will Carle- 
ton that I give it here: 
All the lessons of the day 
Teach us fair; 
’Tls a blunder and a crime 
To despair, 
Make them win their little way 
Inch by inch. 
Scan them well and fight them fair; 
Give them honest blows to spare. 
There are meaner things possessed 
Than a first-class second best. 
Time may come -when you have turned. 
To a rout 
Every triumph they have earned— 
IMght it out. 
Afterward, while the brothers were eat¬ 
ing, some of the sisters treated them to 
cigars, and expressed our thanks for the 
handsome- way in which they had paid 
their forfeit. Some of us are already 
looking forward to a similar contest an¬ 
other Winter, and I am sure we shall try 
harder than ever to beat the brothers, 
that we may enjov another “first-class 
second best” at their expense. 
CLARA RICKETSON ROPER. 
This truth comes to me more and more 
the longer we live that on what field or in 
what uniform, or with what aims we do 
our duty, matters very little, or even what 
our duty is, great or small, splendid or 
obscure. Only to find our duty certainly, 
and somewhere and somehow to do it 
faithfully, makes us good, strong, happy 
and useful men, and turns our lives into 
some feeble echo of the life of God.— 
Phillips Brooks. 
The Rural Patterns. 
The little one-piece dress shown is suit¬ 
able for small boys, or for girls up to six 
years old. The dress is made with 
fronts and back. There is a box-plait at 
the center-front and one at the center- 
back with outward-turning plaits at each 
side thereof. The sailor collar is quite 
novel and is joined to the neck at the 
back, under the box-plaits at the front 
and there is a belt which confines the ful¬ 
ness at the waistline. The sleeves are 
tucked at their lower edges and can be 
left plain or finished with cuffs as liked. 
The quantity of material required for the 
medium size (4 years) is 4j4 yards 27, 
3J6 yards 36 or 3% yards 44 inches wide 
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The plain blouse is always an attrac¬ 
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edge is finished with a regulation box- 
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which the collar is attached. The sleeves 
are of the regulation sort, finished with 
straight cuffs. The quantity of material 
required for the medium size (8 years) is 
2j4 yards 27 or 1% yards 36 inches wide. 
1 he pattern 5612 is cut in sizes for boys 
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