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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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The Rural Patterns. 
A pretty model for a lingerie blouse 
with the new long sleeves is shown in 
Xo. 6292. The waist is made with 
front and hacks, which are tucked and 
trimmed on indicated lines, then joined 
to the pointed yoke. The high collar 
finishes the neck. The sleeves are 
tucked at the wrists to fit snugly, with¬ 
out being over tight, and are trimmed 
to give long and slender lines. The 
6292 Tucked Blouse, 32 to 40 bust. 
quantity of material required for the 
medium size is 3J4 yards 21 or 24, 2)4 
yards 32 or 2 yards 44 inches wide 
with 9 yards of insertion, 1 x /z yard of 
edging. The pattern 6292 is cut in 
sizes for 32, 34, 36, 38 and 40 inch 
measure; price 10 cents. 
An attractive variation of the seven- 
gore skirt is shown in No. 6298. The 
skirt is cut in seven gores, the front 
gore being extended to form a portion 
of the girdle. It can he made either 
with inverted plaits or habit back and 
it is perforated for walking length. The 
quantity of material required for the 
medium size is 8)4 yards 24 or 27, 7*4 
yards 32, 5*4’ yards 44 inches wide, 4 
yards 52 when material has figure or 
nap; ~/ 2 yards 24 or .27, 7 yards 32, 4 
yards 44 inches wide, 3)4 yards 52 
when material has neither figure nor 
nap. The pattern 6298 is cut in sizes 
for a 22, 24, 26, 28, 30 and 32 inch waist 
measure; price 10 cents. 
How the Farmer’s Wife Lives. 
Tlii‘ following letter is reprinted from 
the “American Magazine” for April. The 
day we read it we received an article on 
farm life in Nebraska from Mrs. Fred¬ 
erick C. Johnson, and contrast lie tween 
the two is so striking tht we decided to 
print the two articles together. “Ellen 
t ook" is located in Idaho. We should be 
glad to bear from others in her State. 
“1 have boon a farmer’s wife for twenty- 
!'ve years and have been much interested 
in recent newspaper discussions concerning 
country life and its problems. I know both 
from experience and observation that the 
average, woman on a farm leads a life of 
nerve-racking, soul-killing drudgery and iso¬ 
lation, and that added possessions do not 
seem to add much to her leisure and social 
advantages, although they may enable her 
to have a larger house and better furniture 
than her poorer neighbors. Even if her 
husband thought he was able to keep a 
hired girl—which he doesn't—the few girls 
who work for wages prefer to work in 
town, and I am sure I don't blame rliem: 
and the farm woman who has daughters ol 
her own old enough to help is generally 
overworking herself to keep (hem in school. 
When not in school the girls work too, in 
many cases harder than they should. Many 
farmers’ wives, in addition to doing all 
their own housework and sewing and car¬ 
ing for their children, carry on some side 
line of industry to add to the family in¬ 
come, others have a small army of hired 
men to cook for during a considerable por¬ 
tion of the year, and at all events, house¬ 
keeping on the farm includes a multitude 
of things that the city housewife doesn't 
have to do. 
“I once heard a group of countrywomen 
whose husbands were all well-to-do ranchers 
—we call them ranchers out here—discuss¬ 
ing an eight-liour-Iaw proposition. One 
said she did not feel like advocating an 
light-hour law for her husband’s hired men 
while she had to work fourteen hours a day 
herself. Another said she noyer got her 
work done until ten o’clock at night, and 
a third remarked that she favored a short 
working day for anylody who could get it, 
hut if there could he an eight-hour law or 
a ten-hour law which would take her in 
she would think the millennium had come. 
“Nor is this all. The women in even a 
little town have their Ladies’ Aid Society, 
their Women's Clubs, their W. C. T. F., 
with lectures and entertainments which af¬ 
ford social intercourse, intellectual stimu¬ 
lus and an opportunity to keep in touch 
with the outside world. In a thickly set¬ 
tled country where*tbe farms are small and 
the houses consequently close together, the 
farmers' wives may have some of these 
things; hut where ranches are so large that 
a woman must have a team hooked up for 
her benefit if she wants to visit her near¬ 
est neighbor, anything in the way of social 
gatherings seems impracticable. 
“Who is to blame? Not the farmer, 
primarily : his own lot is only a little less 
hard th.au that of his wife. You'don’t sup¬ 
pose, do you, that country people like long 
hours of find labor so much better Ilian 
oilier people do t hat they voluntarily 
choose a slave's life? No, the very fact 
tlial fanners and their families do work . 
hauler than most others shows that there 
i an economic necessity for their so doing; 
ihey must in order to live and make a 
little provision for the future. Sometimes 
those who have a good deal of property in 
their possession are badly in debt, or if one 
mortgage lias been paid off by untold labor 
and privation they feel that they must live 
within their income to keep from incurring 
another. And I have never yet heard a 
farmer claim that his net income would 
equal interest on the money invested with 
wages for the work performed by himself 
and family. 
“There is an old adage which says, ‘Come 
easy, go easy,’ and the reverse, ‘Come hard, 
go hard,’ ’is equally true. Ho that if coun¬ 
try people are characterized by greater po- 
nuriotisness and a lower standard of liv¬ 
ing than city people who would seem to lie 
in no better circumstances, lay it to their 
lack of education, their lack of travel and 
social intercourse, and above all, to the 
grinding- toil by which their little property 
lias been saved. 
"What is the remedy? I have come to 
the conclusion that Socialism is the only 
cure, and that the condition of the farm¬ 
er's wife will not be much improved until 
her shackles are stricken off by the benefi¬ 
cent power of the Cooperative Common¬ 
wealth.” EI.LEN COOK- 
Farm Life in Nebraska. 
We have a club composed of women 
in our town and the country which is 
called the “As You Like” or A. Y. L. 
for short. They meet once in two 
weeks in Summer and every week in 
Winter. There is a president and sec¬ 
retary; there are no dues. Each mem¬ 
ber entertains the club at her home ' 
once in so often, and as there is a 
large membership it does not prove to 
he a tax upon any one member. They 
entertain in alphabetical order. One 
can bring her work or not. It is' to j 
meet and have a social good time. Per- ' 
haps there will be music, as nearly' 
every home has some musictil instru¬ 
ment, and often more than one. A 
supper is always served, being more or 
less elaborate, as the hostess entertain¬ 
ing desires'. At the last one chicken 
pie, fruit salad, cakes, etc., were served. 
If one does not feel able or think best 
to have so much it is all right; no com¬ 
ments are made. “When we go in the 
country to be entertained we have the 
best suppers,” remarked a town woman. 
“These farmers have everything they 
want.” and when the Country Life 
Commission appointed by President 
Roosevelt was mentioned as trying to 
make it better for the farm people, etc., 
they laughed and remarked that we 
had no use for them here. There may 
be a few exceptions where farmers’ 
wives are kept at home by hard work 
and numerous children, or possibly by 
having a husband who thinks it is their 
place to stay at home, but to tell the 
truth, in my living in various States 
and mingling more or less with farm¬ 
ers I cannot recall a case where such 
a dark picture as represented in some 
of the papers (women’s journals) could 
he found. In fact I think one will find 
it more in the East than in Central 
States, or West. Here in Nebraska it 
is rare that a woman does not have her 
driving horse, farm women I mean, 
and often they go to town for the sup¬ 
plies and repairs to machinery per¬ 
haps. The work seems to get done, 
and the children are sent to school as 
soon as old enough. One mother I 
have seen driving in to the town school 
with three children every morning and 
back for them at night. Scarcely a 
farm home is without a telephone, some 
having both Independent and Bell 
’phones. This perhaps makes less 
neighborhood visiting, as they can chat 
any time over the 'phone. “It is lots 
of company; when I get cross or lone- . 
some I just call up some friend or 
neighbor and talk a while and I am 
ready for work again; something new 
to think about. If I had to go half a 
mile or more to see and talk with some 
one why I should stay home until I had j 
more time, you see,” said a farmer’s i 
wife. 
Rural delivery is all through the set¬ 
tled portion of Nebraska, and daily pa- 
ners. perhaps more than one, are often 
taken. We get our Omaha daily at or 
before noon the day it is published, as 
the rural delivery does not start out 
until the first mail comes. In conversa¬ 
tion not long ago with a dear friend in 
town she told me how badly her 
friends in the East felt when hei 
daughter married and went to live on 
a farm. “With her education and re¬ 
finement to bury herself on the farm.” 
Her mother wrote them that she could 
not see how or why it was worse than 
living in town; she had a fine carriage 
and driving horse, a neighbor close by 
had a fine automobile in which she 
was often asked to ride; she had mail 
every day delivered at the farm, a 
telephone iu her house, a fine piano, 
china, silver and cut glass which was 
used every day. Brussels carpets or 
rugs, and everything to match. A wind 
mill pumped the water and it would 
soon be brought in the house by pipes. 
This same friend asked several friends 
to meet her sister, who was visiting 
her from Indiana. After they had left 
the sister asked who the lady was, 
dressed so richly in black silk, forget¬ 
ting the name. When told she lived 
three miles out of town on a farm, 
she said in great surprise: “How diif 
she get here?” “Why, she drove in; 
nearly every farmer’s wife has a horse 
and carriage to go and come as they 
wish,” replied her sister. 
“And that woman was a farmer’s wife, 
and was the one in brown also?” “Yes,” 
laughed my friend, "she is the mother 
of five children too—and raises lots of 
chickens besides doing her work, but 
she has things very convenient, and 
the two oldest children help much 
when not in school.” One often has 
very erroneous ideas of different parts 
of the country. Another home pleas¬ 
ure that one finds often in the farm 
home is the phonograph. A neighbor 
invited us to “come over and hear our 
talking machine. I tell you it’s fine, 
we can have music or speeches.” Many 
new pianos have gone into farm homes 
in the last six months, and scores of 
automobiles are owned bv the farmers 
in this county. There is some hard 
work on the farm, hut it can be made 
more easy when there is peace and hap¬ 
piness in the home. Give me the farm 
home even if the home be of sod or, 
logs. MRS. FREDERICK C. JOHNSON. | 
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