1009. 
833 
The Rural Patterns. 
A pretty blouse with Dutch neck and 
three-quarter sleeves is shown in No. 
6409. It may be made with high neck 
and long sleeves if desired. The waist 
is made with front and backs. It is 
laid in groups of fine tucks and there 
is a wide tuck over each shoulder. When 
the neck is- cut square it is finished 
with trimming, when made high with a 
regulation stock. The sleeves are made 
in one piece each and are tucked in 
groups, the tucks at the elbows being 
6409 Tucked Waist. 32 to 42 bust. 
stitched for a short distance only, so 
allowing becoming, graceful and com¬ 
fortable fulness. The quantity of ma¬ 
terial required for the medium size is 
4 % yards 21, 2 l / 2 yards 24 or 2% yards 
32 or 44 inches wide with 2 yards of 
banding and 3 yards of edging. The 
pattern 6409 is cut in sizes for a 32, 
34, 36, 38, 40 and 42-inch bust measure; 
price 10 cents. 
The skirt with plain upper portion and 
plaits below is again a fashionable one. 
No. 6410 is cut in seven gores. There 
is an extension at the back edge of each 
gore below the scallops and these ex¬ 
tensions form the plaits. The scallops 
are designed to be under-faced or fin- 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
How A Farm Family Spends Summer, hardly knew what to do with it, but 
a, o on a TV/r decided the best place for it was the 
At 3.30 A. M. the alarm clock went figh box (an arrangem ent of wire net- 
off, but its warning was not necessary, t j ng} a pen< j n t he river where fish 
for already a fire of cedar boughs are kept alive after being caught until 
crackled in the stove, and Farmer F. wanted for use). He started down the 
bank again and had nearly reached the 
was out at the pasture bars calling the box w g cn the fish renewed its strug- 
team to be fed and watered before their g j es f or liberty and yanked his captor 
trip to the market town, eight and a around the bank and finally into the 
half miles away. The green corn, new river, where they wrestled for awhile 
, . . , longer, and then the fish, gaining 
potatoes, raspbernes, cieam toast a strength from being again in the water, 
coffee made a hearty meal for break- bi s natural element, got away, leaving 
fast, but folks who work hard, as ours a very disappointed man weary and wet, 
do, need hearty food. The children with onl V a bi S fish stor y instead of a 
were still sleeping in their beds, but 
the four grown folks had a jolly meal; 
the early hour, the darkness outside 
contrasting with the warm lighted liv- 
big fish, for his pains! mrs. e. r. f. 
Canning Vegetables. 
6410 Seven Gored Walking Skirt, 
22 to 32 waist. 
ished in any way that may be preferred 
and afford excellent opportunity for the 
use of the fashionable buttons. The 
fulness at the back is laid in inverted 
plaits. The quantity of material re¬ 
quired for the medium size is W/ 2 yards 
27, 4^ yards 44 or A]/ 2 yards 52 inches 
wide; width of skirt at lower edge f/ 2 
yards. The pattern 6410 is cut in sizes 
for a 22, 24, 26, 28, 30 and 32-inch 
waist measure; price 10 cents. 
I am trying to make girls wiser and 
happier. Books don’t help much toward 
that. It is people that count. You want 
to put yourself into people; they touch 
other people; these, others still, and so 
you go on working forever.—Alice 
Freeman Palmer. 
In canning vegetables, it is necessary 
to use new rubber and preferable to 
ing room of the camp, and the sound use glass-top jars, as the rubbers should 
of the “swells” on the shore from some be in place during the boiling to insure 
big steamer just gone by, all seemed to success and this cannot be done with a 
° , ... . .. . metal top that must be screwed on the 
carry the idea that htc was a holiday, so f£ ru bber. I have canned even such 
and such strenuous tasks as were be- vegetables as asparagus without steriliz- 
fore us for the day, entirely out of ing the rubbers and have not lost a jar, 
place. Two of our number were “on b [ lt 1 do not give that as a rule. I have 
1 , , „ also kept all the jars that I canned by 
pleasure bent. 1 he two young men £j irec or four hours’ successive boiling, 
who breakfasted with us came down instead of one hour a day for three 
to our camp the night before so as to days, but all the germs are not supposed 
be „p early ,o go .rolling for pickerel ™ .Ef 'S. VcE" 
when the fish are hungry in the eaily method and a safeguard against the j 
morning. At five A. M. they were out action of air and light on the rubbers 
on the St. Lawrence River rowing is to dip the jars, when cold, top down, 
slowly up stream, and by this time bel ° w the ™ bber > in melted Paraffin. 
Farmer F. was on his way to market Canned Asparagus.—If possible, gath- 
. . . . . , r • i . „<•_. er the asparagus the same day that it is 
with his load o six »r e so p < , cannec j Wash and arrange in jars, put 
two big crates of berries, one of ap- one teaspoonful of salt in each jar, and 
pies and one of eggs. At nine o’clock fill with cold water. Put on the rub- 
an invitation came from the people who her and the top loosely. Place the jars 
r ,, , . on a board in your wash boiler. Pour 
rent our cottage for the small boy to in cold water * tw0 _ t h irds up the jars; 
go to a picnic with them down at the p Ut on toiler lid tightly; bring to a 
State Park a mile below, and he was boil and boil steadily one hour. Re- 
gleefully scrubbed and hustled into a move the jars, fasten on the clamp and 
i .. . , _ a put the jars aside until the next day. 
clean suit to >e reac y <. <- * Remove the clamp and the lid, fill the 
This left mother and the three-year-old j ar w Rfi water (as the vegetables 
alone at the camp, for the little girl, shrink), put on the lid again, place in 
the only other member of the family, your boiler in cold water again, and 
was visiting her grandmother for a few — f “pkSs, 2& t 
days. there was not a great deal to n0 £ rem ove the jar lid at all. 
be done, just to “do up the morning s String beans are canned in the same 
work at the camp, which is very “light way, only that they require four hours’ 
housekeeping,” and to see to feeding the boiling. Lima beans, corn, tomatoes, 
chickens. A quiet day was the most a " d egg " plant are kept by th,s 
enjoyable one possible for mother after Canned Rhubarb ._ Remove all the 
the strenuous one of yesterday, when tough skin, and cut in half-inch pieces 
she helped pick the berries and apples and scald. Let the rhubarb remain in 
and got dinner for unexpected com- the water until cold, then squeeze out 
pany, besides doing all the usual work a11 the f water possible. Add only one 
1 ■ y ’ . , . cup of sugar to each quart and allow 
alone, the little girl helper being at her tQ rema j n over night. In the morning 
grandma’s. The little three-year-old stew until tender, and transfer to jars 
was fretful, too, from being out in the This is delicious. The color and flavor 
, , hrvrv innrr nnrl is much improved if the rhubarb is 
hot sun m the berry hem too long, ana . . . , 
, . „ J . , , packed tight in the jars and sterilized 
then ‘ soaking wading in the cool b y ^he sa me rule as the asparagus, omit- 
watcr in the “slip” by the boathouse un- ting, of course, any salt or water in 
til he had pains in his legs and head. But the jar. l. s. 
Baby was all right again this morning, 
and the two spent a very pleasant time 
the long day through. The day was 
one of the hottest of the season, but 
here by the shore it is never too warm 
for comfort. 
At 10 o’clock the two young men 
came back with two fine fish and stories 
(as usual) of bigger bites which had 
got away. Farmer F. returned a little 
after 12, and after dinner and a short 
nap in the hammock, went back to the 
field to set up the last of the grain, 
which a neighbor cut with his reaper 
and binder that afternoon. There was 
supper to get at six for the family and 
the “binder” man. Getting meals seems 
to be the main part of the work at* the 
camp, and is not too hard a task when 
one can “forage” over a garden farm 
for supplies of fruit and vegetables. 
There is always, too, an abundance of 
creamy milk and nice butter. As for 
meat, the man comes through here twice 
a week, and then we have fish often, 
and broilers occasionally, or a good fat 
hen. 
I think I’ll close this account with a 
genuine fish story told us by the man 
who took the people from the cottage 
to the picnic. A nephew of his, while 
staying at his cottage near Fine View 
Park, one day not long ago, set two 
night lines, and in the early morning 
went down to look at them. One line 
had something on it, something big, 
and he drew it in carefully, the fish put¬ 
ting up a big fight all the while. He 
finally landed it all right, and it was a 
good big one. He carried it struggling, 
clasped tight to his body, both arms 
tight around it (the only way he could 
hold it at all) and reached the cottage 
with it still struggling frantically. He 
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Half the money 
spent for chim¬ 
neys would be 
saved if every¬ 
body bought 
Macbeth “ Pearl 
Glass” lamp- 
chimneys. 
Because Mac- 
9 
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from heat —they 
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Then they’re handsome—clear 
—crystalline—and give a lamp a 
well-bred look. 
Unless my name is on a lamp- 
chimney it is not a Macbeth. 
I have a book which tells which chimney to get 
for any burner made. It is free. Address 
Macbeth, Pittsburgh. 
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or give you double the amoun t 
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you will give it a trial, or we 
will refund the money paid 
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39 Furnace St.,Rochester,N.Y. 
Prices from 
$2 to $12 
For hard or 
Soft Coal 
wood or gas 
Fits any 
Stove or 
Furnace 
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telephone as you would in purchasing 
a cream separator or a team of horses. 
Buy only that telephone which you are 
sure you can depend upon. In other 
words buy only 
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Rural Telephones 
They are absolutely reliable—they can be depended upon for the best 
of service day or night—good weather or bad—in emergencies or for 
ordinary business. 
Western Electric Rural Telephones are of the same high quality as the 
4,000,000 “Bell’ ’ telephones in daily use, and are made by the same manu¬ 
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