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THE re.Ure.A.I> NEW-YORKER 
Woman and the Home 
From Day to Day. 
INTEGER VITAE. 
The man of life upright, 
Whose guiltless heart is free 
From all dishonest deeds. 
Or thought of vanity ; 
The man whose silent days 
In harmless joys are spent, 
Whom hopes can not delude, 
Nor sorrow discontent; 
That man needs neither towers 
Nor armor for defense, 
No secret vaults to fly 
From thunder’s violence; 
He only can behold 
With unaffrightod eyes 
The horrors of the deep 
And terrors of the skies. 
Thus, scorning all the cares 
That fate or fortune brings, 
He makes the heaven his book, 
Ilis wisdom heavenly things; 
Good thoughts his only friends, 
Ills wealth a well-spent ago, 
The earth his sober inn 
And quiet pilgrimage. 
—Thomas Campion. 
* 
Sewing tire collar supports in a waist 
after each laundering becomes rather 
irksome, and we were pleased with the 
Ladies’ Home Journal’s suggestion to 
sew a little pocket of tape at the top and 
bottom of the stock, into which the bone 
slips, at each place where support is de¬ 
sired. Another little band of tape across 
the center, under which the support 
slips, is also advised, but we replace this 
with a loop of buttonhole work, which 
is neater and less bulky. The supports 
are then slipped in very quickly. 
* 
The New York Medical Journal gives 
the following advice for the cure of 
thumb-sucking, an unsightly habit some 
children persist in: Taking an appro¬ 
priately sized thin rubber ball, an oval 
hole is cut to loosely fit the wrist, and 
the surface ventilated by very numerous' 
punches with a stable harness punch. A 
cheese cloth bag is sewed on to the oval 
hole, and a tape run in and out of the 
cloth at this aperture, which can be 
gently tied at the wrist. A woolen mitten 
can be worn within this if required for 
cold weather. Several sizes have to be 
made at intervals of two months, to al¬ 
low for growth. For half an hour night 
and morning these are removed and the 
child taught gradually to pat a cake and 
play with her own hands. After four 
months the child will be completely 
broken of the habit, but still must wear 
them at night as a precautionary 
measure. 
* 
Striped muslins with a spotted border 
only cost 12 J /2 cents a yard, and make 
very pretty Summer dresses. The skirt 
is cut in seven or nine gores, and is 
trimmed with the banding, which is 
solid color like the stripes, with large 
white coin dots. The waist is a little 
jumper in any preferred style, also 
trimmed with bands of the border. A 
white blouse is worn under it. Such a 
dress can be made for $1.50; it washes 
well, having no lace to tear, and it is 
very smart looking. A brown and white 
striped muslin of this type, with tar» 
shoes and a hat of burnt straw with 
a bit of brown trimming, is stylisfir 
enough for city or Summer resort wear,, 
and not too fine for the country home. 
Either the various colors, or black 
stripes, look very nice with white canvas 
shoes, which we regard as a Summer 
economy, for they are cool and pretty, 
easily cleansed, and save more expen¬ 
sive shoes. Very pretty canvas walking 
pumps cost from $1.35 up. 
* 
Among the interesting documents 
preserved by the Connecticut Historical 
Society is the diary of a young girl who 
lived about 1775, whose manifold indus¬ 
tries certainly set a good example to 
young women of to-day. She was al¬ 
ways busy, knitting, spinning, weaving, 
cooking, reading, teaching and working 
in the garden; yet she found plenty of 
time for visiting other young girls. Here 
are some laconic accounts from her 
diary: 
“Fixed gown for Prude. Mend mother’s 
riding hood. Ague in my face. Ellen was 
sparked last night. Mother spun short 
thread. Fix’d two gowns for Welch’s girls. 
Carded tow. Spun linen. Worked on cheese 
basket. Iiatchel’d flax with Hannah, and 
we did 51 lb. apiece. Pleated and ironed. 
Read a sermon of Dodridge’s. Spooled a 
piece. Milked the cows. Spun linen and did 
50 knots. Made a broom of guinea wheat 
straw. Spun thread to whiten. Went to 
Mr. Otis’s and made them a swinging visit. 
Set a red dye. Prude styed at home and 
learned ‘Eve’s Dream’ by heart. Had two 
scholars from Mrs. Taylor. I carded two 
pounds of whole wool. Spun harness twine. 
Scoured the pewter.” 
We seem very busy nowadays, and 
omit many forms of study and self-im¬ 
provement on the ground that we have 
no time, yet it is doubtful whether we 
have any more really necessary work 
than the busy Colonial women, who 
could find time to read long sermons 
and commit poetry to memory, in spite 
of their strenuous home duties. 
* 
We have been told, from time to 
time, that the mechanical piano players 
and talking machines would in time do 
away with the study of music, just as 
the croakers of 50 years ago assured us 
that photography would put an end to 
portrait painting. But the hard-work¬ 
ing music teacher still makes a living, 
and the art schools are full of embryo 
portrait painters, so that it seems as 
though mechanical aids were a help 
rather than a hindrance to original 
study. In the same way we believe that 
a modern talking machine may form a 
useful supplement to one’s education, as 
well as a giver of pleasure. Of course 
any one of us would rather listen to 
Melba’s golden voice than to its phono¬ 
graph record, or gaze at Trinity’s spire 
while hearing its swelling chimes, rather 
than listen to both in the prosaic sur¬ 
roundings of home, but how few of us 
there are, after all, who can expect the 
education of extensive travel and sight¬ 
seeing! We have all heard of the Hud¬ 
son Bay Eskimos, to whom a Canadian 
bishop introduced familiar hymns 
through the use of the phonograph. As 
they listened to the unknown voice pro¬ 
ceeding from the little box, the Eskimos 
exclaimed with deep conviction: 
“Canned white man.” Just as we stock 
our pantries with canned food for emer¬ 
gencies, we may supply ourselves with 
“canned” music, and feel, even in the 
most isolated home, that we are not en¬ 
tirely cut off from outside amusements. 
Many young people, who have not yet 
reached their full sense of proportion, 
feel more humiliated to acknowledge 
that they have never heard the newest 
popular song than to admit any lack of 
6043 Girl’s Dress with Nine Gored Skirt, 
8 to 14 years. 
knowledge really worth while. It is 
here that the talking machine comes in 
with its sense of up-to-dateness. Most 
of us will tire quickly enough of those 
roaring songs wherein one gentleman 
assures us that his name is Harrigan, 
and another confides that he is afraid to 
go home in the dark, but we can always 
make our mechanical friend reflect our 
tastes, in a way the human singer may 
not be disposed to do. With the daily 
paper brought to the door by rural de¬ 
livery for father’s resting hours, the tel¬ 
ephone for mother to keep in touch with 
her neighbors, and the talking machine 
to make the young folks merry, who 
says the farm home spells loneliness and 
isolation ? _ 
The Rural Patterns. 
The simple dress that is made with 
the loose and comfortable blouse and 
skirt which are joined by means of a 
belt is one of the most popular as well 
as most satisfactory that a girl can pos¬ 
sess. No. 6028 is absolutely simple, the 
blouse being cut in one with the sleeves 
and is finished with the half low or 
Dutch neck that is so comfortable on a 
warm day. As illustrated the material 
is one of the inexpensive printed wash 
fabrics trimmed with bands of the plain 
color matching the design. The dress 
is made with the blouse and the skirt. 
The blouse is laid in two box plaits at 
the front and in inverted plaits over 
the shoulders and in the sleeves, and is 
finished at the neck edge with the 
shaped collar. The skirt is straight and 
box plaited and the two are joined by- 
means of a belt. The quantity of mate¬ 
rial requird for the medium size (12 
years) is 5% yards 24, 4 yards 32 or 3 
yards 44 inches wide, with Y yard of 
contrasting material 27 inches wide to 
trim as illustrated. The pattern 6028 
is cut in sizes for girls of 8, 10, 12 and 
14 years of age; price 10 cents. 
No. 6043 shows a desirable model for 
an embroidered linen dress, or for one 
of the heavier cottons trimmed with 
braiding. The dress consists of the 
July 25, 
blouse and the skirt. The blouse is 
made with fronts and back and is laid 
in tucks, at the outer edges of which 
the trimming is arranged. Whether the 
sleeves are long or short they are gath¬ 
ered into cuff’s. The skirt is nine gored 
and laid in inverted plaits at the back. 
The quantity of material required for 
the medium size (12 years) is 7 yards 
24, 5^2 yards 32 or 4 yards 44 inches 
wide, with 14 yards of banding. The 
pattern 6043 is cut in sizes for girls 
of 8, 10, 12 and 14 years of age; price 
10 cents. 
An attractive model with a circular 
skirt is shown in No. 6035. In the illus¬ 
tration the material is white linen band¬ 
ed with Copenhagen blue and there is 
braiding with white soutache on the 
blouse portion, but there are so many 
materials that can be made available 
as to render the list a long one. Linen 
is always handsome and durable and is 
being much worn both in colors and in 
white, cotton poplin and the like are much 
in fashion, while there are also various 
lighter weight materials, such as batiste 
and lawn, which are appropriate. The 
washable pongees are fashionable, while 
for more dressy frocks the silk pongee 
and simple foulards are admirable. 
Trimming always can be contrasting 
material or bands of the same edged 
with braid or almost any appropriate 
finish that fancy may suggest. The 
soutache braid can be applied over any 
preferred design or omitted, and if still 
further variation is wanted the yoke 
portion could be made of all-over lace 
or embroidery or any similar material. 
The dress consists of the blouse and the 
skirt, the two being joined by the belt. 
The blouse is trimmed to give the yoke 
effect and is laid in plaits on the shoul¬ 
ders, beneath which the epaulettes are 
attached. There are moderately full 
sleeves finished with roll-over cuffs. 
The quantity of material required for 
the medium size (12 years) is 6j£ yards 
24, \/ 2 yards 32 or 3J^ yards 44 inches 
wide with Y yard of contrasting mate¬ 
rial 32 inches wide to trim as illustrated. 
The pattern 6035 is cut in sizes for girls 
6035 Girl’s Dress with Circular Skirt, 
8 to 14 years. 
of 8, 10, 12 and 14 years of ase; price 
10 cents. 
All things in this world pass away; 
wife, children, honor, wealth, friends 
and what else is dear to flesh and blood 
They are but lent until God please to 
call for them back again, that we may 
not esteem anything our own or set our 
hearts upon anything but Him alone, 
who only remains forever.—Lord Balti¬ 
more (1631). 
