1908. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
AH 7 
An Experiment in Beads. 
On page 72 appeared a short para¬ 
graph describing beaded dog collars, 
something new and sure to be univer¬ 
sally becoming in neckwear. It would 
be amusing to know just how many 
Rural readers are now wearing these 
pretty bands as a result of that brief 
suggestion, and into how many designs 
and colorings the idea has blossomed 
out. In our family that particular copy 
of the favorite paper had not been in 
the house over night before Bess had 
hunted up what small beads she could 
find, and had sent to town for a yard 
of three-quarter-inch velvet ribbon and 
a bunch of turquoise blue beads. The 
velvet was 16 cents a yard, and though 
large bunches of beads were 25 cents, 
the shopper found a small five-cent 
bunch whose pretty color has enlivened 
two collars. Among household treasures 
stored away and useless Bess found 
quite a bunch of new gold-colored beads 
and a string of garnet red ones. She 
was somewhat at a loss for a design, 
but fell to work and evolved something 
very pretty. The upper line in her 
sketch gives a fair idea of how the 
colors were combined. In the sketch 
A »*» /!* ~ „*■* • 
» O 4 • • * • » * * ✓ * * • 4 0 *1 ♦ / ■», . » I. « 
V • : 
: -'V -.v ----- M/ s»- 4- 
O represents garnet red, -f- a gold-col¬ 
ored bead, — turquoise blue and- 
steel beads. With the garnet red beads 
she first spaced the velvet off in squares. 
At first she sewed each bead on sepa¬ 
rately ; later she found- she worked 
faster and made better lines when she 
took the right number of beads on her 
needle at a time, and after both ends 
were fast caught the line in place with 
tiny stitches across. The squares left 
between the vertical bars were then 
crossed as shown, a garnet bead being 
used at the center, and the colors alter¬ 
nating on each succeeding square. Tur¬ 
quoise blue, then gold, with the flower 
petals of the design in the contrasting 
color. The three colors were quite suf¬ 
ficient, and make a pleasing combina¬ 
tion. If she had happened upon a few 
pretty beads of a fourth color they 
could have been used at the center of 
the flowers. She found that she worked 
with far less eye and nerve strain when 
she wore a dark cloth skirt and emptied 
out a few beads at a time upon her lap. 
The needle picked them up much easier 
than out of a box cover or dish, and she 
could sit erect as she worked. She used 
sewing silk to match each sort of bead, 
thinking it left the colors clearer. 
Though Bess used the finest cambric 
needle she could find there were some 
beads too small for stringing. These 
discarded beads, which she put by them¬ 
selves as fast as found, and the discov¬ 
ery of a bead necklace made upon horse 
hairs by her grandmother led the girl 
to try something wholly different in her 
second collar. With some long hairs 
from a horse’s tail she soon proved that 
no beads are too fine to be strung on 
that sort of thread (no needle being re¬ 
quired) and that graceful curves almost 
form themselves. Make a hole by pierc¬ 
ing the velvet with a larger needle, 
thread the horse hair through and tie 
a knot as in thread. Fill the hair with 
beads and keeping it always upon the 
outside, fasten the curved lines in place 
with tiny stitches crossing the hair. You 
can cut a serpentine pattern out of writ¬ 
ing paper and baste it along the center 
of the velvet. Work a beaded line next 
each edge, then remove the pattern and 
it is easy to carry the central line evenly 
between these two. When the end of 
the band is reached pass the hairs 
through the velvet and knot them to¬ 
gether, making the knot just with a few 
stitches on the back. If you happen to 
have some clear glass beads the effect 
will be .very good if these are used 
alternately on the horse hair with bright 
colored beads. The stars on each side 
the curved lines are put on with a fine 
needle and sewing silk, as in the band 
first described. 
The third design shows the sort of 
band Bess intends making next. She 
may work the vine and border all in 
steel beads, buying some handsome blue 
beads for the flowers. I am not sure 
that any other is as pretty as the jew¬ 
eled effect of the one closely worked 
and all turquoise, garnet and gold. It 
seemed at first as if this band would 
be long in the making, but Bess esti¬ 
mated that she spent but five hours 
over it, and could make another in less 
time, because a good deal of planning 
is required in a first venture. 
The fastening at the back gave her 
some ground for debate. The stiff little 
bow of the ribbon velvet over a hook 
and eye did not please her fancy when 
made, so she hemmed the upper end 
that the design might exactly meet and 
decided to depend either upon two small 
gold collar pins or upon small pins with 
glass beads matching the beads. Or 
would a small gold stud be suitable if 
buttonholes were made for it? The 
small gold pins are most frequently 
seen. _ r. ithamar. 
The Rural Patterns. 
It will be noted that there is some 
difference in the pattern illustrations 
this week. We have felt for some time 
that two patterns a week arc not suffi¬ 
cient for the big Rural family, so have 
condensed their form and expect in 
future to illustrate 40 new patterns a 
month, instead of the customary eight 
or 10. Even in their condensed form 
we think they will be found sufficiently 
clear to judge their merits. We can 
also furnish now a pattern catalogue, 
issued twice a year, which will illustrate 
1,000 styles; price, postpaid, 10 cents. 
The price of the patterns remains 10 
cents, as heretofore. 
One of our pictures this week shows 
a group of waists: 2323 is a ladies’ 
jumper. This is suitable for silk, crepe 
de chine, cotton and voile; three sizes, 
small, medium and large. 2327 is a 
ladies’ tucked shirt-waist with long or 
three-quarter length sleeves, an ex¬ 
cellent model for any of the sheer white 
goods, also taffetas or China silk; six 
sizes, 32 to 42. 2315, ladies’ tucked 
shirt-waist, adaptable to any *of the 
novelty cotton shirting, linen, pique, 
duck and also taffetas and wash silk; 
seven sizes, 32 to 44. 2319, ladies’ 
tucked shirt-waist with or without re¬ 
movable chemisette. This simple though 
stylish shirt-waist is adaptable to cham- 
bray, linen, duck or voile; six sizes, 32 
to 42. 2310, misses’ shirt-waist with 
seamless yoke. A good model for any 
of the fancy shirtings. Three sizes, 13 
to 17 years. All the patterns are 10 
cents each. 
The second cut shows some of the 
season’s skirts, and also a pretty cut¬ 
away coat. 2301, ladies’ fifteen-gored 
flare skirt, with or without trimming 
bands. Adaptable to any of the season’s 
suitings and linen; 8 sizes, 22 to 36. 
2326, misses’ three-piece skirt. This 
model is an excellent one for mohair, 
striped or plain flannel, French worsted 
or voile; 3 sizes, 13 to 17 years. 2293, 
ladies’ one-buttton cutaway coat. Black 
or blue serge, granite or Venetian cloth 
are suitable materials for this simple 
though stylish coat; seven sizes, 32 to 
44. 2325, ladies’ nine-gored plaited 
skirt. Made up in striped or plain mo¬ 
hair, voile or mixed tweed, checked 
tailor suiting or Panama cloth. This is 
an excellent model; seven sizes, 22 to 
34. 2309, ladies’ nine-gored skirt, with 
an inverted box-plait at center back 
seam and below hip at the other seams. 
As a separate skirt or as part of jacket 
costume this is a most serviceable gar¬ 
ment. Seven sizes, 22 to 34. All these 
patterns, 10 cents each. 
Clematis Paniculata. 
Nine years ago we bought a vine to 
cover a tree soon to die upon the lawn. 
The reclothing of the unhealthy horse- 
chestnut tree was not a success. The 
tree was young and had become beauti¬ 
ful and a joy, particularly at blossom¬ 
ing time. We suppose that improper 
drainage, that is, water standing about 
its roots during Winter, was the cause 
of its untimely end. Our Clematis pani¬ 
culata was scarcely old enough to reach 
the top of its support when, one rainy 
Summer day, the decayed horse-chestnut 
blew over, and all our hopes of a 
beauty spot in that particular place lay 
flat upon the sod. Early the following 
Spring the Clematis was removed to an 
arbor of cedar posts and cross bars 
shading a bench. In that position it 
has grown and waxed more and more 
luxuriant each year, till now not a 
season passes but we say, “Blessings on 
the Clematis paniculata!” If it has 
foes/ we have yet to learn of them. It 
shows no disposition to winter-kill, as 
do its more gorgeous sisters, the 
Henryii and Jackmanii in our locality. 
It is more amenable to training and re¬ 
quires less room than a Wistaria or 
trumpet creeper, and yet makes enough 
foliage and length to afford a real shel¬ 
ter. There seems a mistaken idea com¬ 
mon among unobserving people that 
this popular veranda screen is but 
the wild Clematis Virginiana of the 
fields showing what can be done by cul¬ 
tivation. I have overheard this infor¬ 
mation given on a trolley car, and when 
last year a friend thanked me for a 
boxful of Paniculata’s long-blossoming 
sprays she referred to them as “flowers 
of the fields.” Virginiana is a pretty 
wild sort, but let no one think that 
by transplanting one a Paniculata will 
be secured. The blossoms of the wild 
Clematis are smaller and far less abun¬ 
dant, its flying seeds are prone to sow 
themselves where they are not wanted, 
and possibly its roots might spread and 
cause annoyance, prudence primrose. 
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