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Our Discontent. 
Unhappy restlessness among country 
people always seems to hinge upon an 
overvaluation of town advantages, with 
wilful blindness to the many blessings of 
farm life. It seems to hinge there—but I 
doubt if it really does. While waiting in a 
doctor’s office last week I could but over- 
5782 Fancy Blouse Waist, 32 to 40 bu»t 
hear what a young woman there said to 
an acquaintance. 
‘‘Let me see, one. two, three—we have 
moved eight times in 12 years.” 
She was well dressed, and had a dear 
little son with her. I doubt not but her* 
husband was employed in one of the 
factories of the village, and brought home 
every week more mongy than the major¬ 
ity of farmers handle in a month. Dis¬ 
content must be a visitor at other homes 
than the farmhouse. Not all spirits of 
discontent are of the same color, for they 
are hatched out of all sorts of eggs. I 
fancy that the sort that incubates most 
freely in country homes is laid by a 
black-winged old bird named monotony. 
Though a housekeeper had gold and 
silver saucepans stored in cupboards in¬ 
laid with mother of pearl she would be 
perfectly excusable for coming to hate 
the sight of the whole array provided 
he was never allowed time to look at 
anything else. Even though she adored 
those saucepans, and was an artist in the 
5769 Jumper Corset Cover, 
34 to 44 bust. 
use of them, she ought to slam the pearly 
doors on the whole business, now and 
then, and wash out all remembrance of 
them with fresh scenes. 
How ? Well, I wish every country girl 
and woman had more drives, more calls 
to go to the village, more errands to do 
at the stores, a more active share in 
church life, an interest in some form of 
philanthropic work. I wish that women 
on the farms might feel so lively an in¬ 
terest in the town library, the church 
mission circle, the village and wayside 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
improvement society, that there need be 
no thought of forming clubs of their 
own. 
A feeble-minded girl once told me that 
she had formed a sewing society. 
“But who belongs to your society ?” 1 
asked. 
She mentioned two others of about 
her own mental capacity and added, “I’m 
the president of it. It seems real good 
to be at the head of something.” 
Now we women of rural America who 
are a prey to inward strivings after a 
broader life want to act only on our 
highest motives. If we open a gate let 
us see that it leads into fresh pastures. 
We have altogether too much of our¬ 
selves, so let us try to learn what others 
are thinking and doing, and be ready 
to lend a hand in projects outside our 
immediate work-a-day world. 
Now please do not say that your work 
leaves you no time for interests outside. 
I- have known a woman do a whole fore¬ 
noon’s work in the three hours following 
sunrise when she was going to a Grange 
picnic. Yes, and come home heartened 
up to attack tasks put off and dreaded for 
a month. Finally, let us offer sympathy 
to the discontents, remembering that there 
is such a thing as Stevenson called the 
divine unrest, pricking humanity to high 
achievements, “the same that sent Colum¬ 
bus into the desolate Atlantic.” She who 
is perfectly and forever satisfied with her¬ 
self has the door bolted on improvement. 
How often the unrest of one generation 
bears fruit in the educating and advance¬ 
ment of the next! Hopes unrealized for 
ourselves pass over to our children, and 
oft times their harvest is joy better than 
we dreamed of. prudexce primrose. 
The Rural Patterns. 
An attractive fancy blouse is shown in 
No. 5782. The blouse is made with a 
fitted lining on which the yoke, the front 
and the back are arranged. There are 
tucks at the shoulders and there are box 
plaits that extend for full length at front | 
and hack, these last terminating in points 
and being arranged in novel fashion in 
combination with strips of the material. 
The double sleeves make a notable feat¬ 
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quantity of material required for the me¬ 
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154 yards 44 inches wide with 2 yards of 
all-over lace. The pattern 5782 is cut in 
sizes for a 32, 34, 36, 38 and 40 inch bust 
measure; price, 10 cents. 
A corset cover without any opening is 
an attractive model to wear under a thin 
waist. The jumper style shown is made 
simply with front and back. There are 
shoulder and under arm seams and the 
beading is arranged over the neck and 
the arms-eye edges and also over the 
waist line. The quantity of material re¬ 
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inches wide with 3% yards of beading 
and 2?4 yards of edging. The pattern 
5769 is cut in sizes for a 34, 36, 38, 40, 42 
and 44-inch bust measure; price. 10 cents. 
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