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The Rural Patterns. 
When ordering patterns alzvays give 
number of patterns and measurements 
desired. 
The blouse that is closed at the front 
is a smart one this season and has been 
heartily welcomed by many women. 
Here is a model that can be made with 
7017 Blouse with Body and 
Sleeves in One, 34 to 42 bust. 
or without the fancy collar and with 
either V-shaped or high neck, so that 
it becomes adapted to a number of uses. 
In the illustration white linen is 
trimmed with rose color, but such a 
blouse as this one will be found avail¬ 
able for almost all seasonable materials 
of the simpler sort. It is well adapted 
to the washable ones and it also suits 
silk and French flannels and materials 
of the kind admirably well. The collar 
with the square sailor back is a feature 
and a smart one. The sleeves form a 
part of the blouse, consequently mak¬ 
ing is a simple matter. The blouse is 
cut in two pieces that are joined at the 
center back. It is laid in two tucks over 
each shoulder that provide becoming 
fullness. The sleeves are gathered into 
bands and these bands are finished with 
cuffs. The front edges are turned un¬ 
der and meet at the center over an 
under-lap. When the V-shaped neck is 
used, the collar is joined to the neck 
edge. When high neck is used, the 
stock collar makes the finish and the 
fancy collar can be used ©r omitted, as 
liked. For a high neck waist, a pretty 
effect can be obtained by making the 
V-shaped portions, visible above the col¬ 
lar, of all-over embroidery, lace or other 
contrasting material. For a woman of 
medium size will be required 2^2 yards 
of material 27, 3G or 44 inches wide, 
with yard 27 for collar and cuffs. 
The pattern, No. 7017, is cut in sizes 
for a 34, 36, 38, 40 and 42 inch bust 
measure; price 10 cents. 
The smaller pictures include 7024, 
tucked blouse or shirt waist, with long 
or three-quarter sleeves; 34 to 42 bust. 
7025, tucked blouse for misses and small 
women, with body and sleeves in one; 
14, 16 and 18 years. 7006, house jacket; 
small, 34 or 36; medium, 38 or 40; large, 
42 or 44 bust. 6919, five-gored skirt 
with tuck to give tunic effect; 22 to 30 
waist. 7018, five-gored skirt with high 
or natural waist line, with habit back or 
inverted plaits, with or without slightly 
circular flounce; 22 to 34 waist. 7026, 
child’s French dress, with square or 
high neck, long or short sleeves; 2, 4 
and 6 years; price of each 10 cents. 
A Fair Exchange. 
Away up on a mountain side in Ver¬ 
mont lives a woman of middle age who 
was married at 15, and who has reared 
six children to maturity. She has al¬ 
ways been poor, and has always taken in 
washing. She tells of one Summer 
when she did 19 washings, big and little, 
every week, and at the same time she 
was putting up six dinners a day, as 
the children had far to go to school. It 
has been a hard life, especially as she 
has a troublesome heart that gives her 
many distressful illnesses. 
Down in a village, six miles away, 
lives another woman of the same age, 
the wife of a professional man in easy 
circumstances. The mountain woman 
does the village woman’s washing. One 
day the village woman was wondering 
where she could place good papers, after 
they were read, so that they might give 
pleasure to more people. An inspiration 
came to her to put some in the bag of 
soiled clothes, with a note asking the 
mountain woman if she knew of any 
one who would like such papers. A 
note came back in the clean clothes, 
saying that they would he more than 
acceptable in her own family. Both 
families were pleased, for the village 
woman much disliked to throw away 
such papers as “The Youth’s Compan¬ 
ion” and “The Christian Herald,’ and 
yet had not room to store an unlimited 
number. So the papers began regularly 
to go up the mountain. Very soon it was 
proved that this was not to he a one¬ 
sided affair, for down from the moun¬ 
tain with the clean clothes, came now 
and then a nice squash, a bottle of maple 
syrup, or cakes of maple sugar, a few 
good apples when apples were scarce in 
the village stores, butternuts in their 
season, and such country products as 
were most acceptable to the village 
woman. The two women rarely met, 
but when they did meet the mountain 
woman, with all her drawbacks in life, 
showed herself of a most cheerful dis¬ 
position, and gifted with a bright in¬ 
telligence which made it easy to see why 
she liked the reading and found time 
for it in her busy life. Once there 
came a note with the clean clothes, ask¬ 
ing if the village woman had any rags 
that she could spare, that the old lady 
of the mountain woman’s family could 
have to braid into rugs. With the re¬ 
quest came the offer to pay for them, 
for this woman had sturdy New Eng¬ 
land independence, ’way through. Again 
the village woman was glad to pass over 
various pieces, and garments that were 
“too good to throw away and not quite 
good enough to wear,” but she wanted 
no money of course for such things. 
Among these things the woman of the 
mountain found garments that she said 
she should wear before they were put 
into rugs. This opened another line of 
exchange. So still down from the 
mountain come pop corn, pumpkins and 
kindred supplies, and up the mountain 
go papers and other second-hand ar¬ 
ticles. It is a fair exchange, and a 
benefit to each family. e. f. m. 
Fairfield Cake. 
The recipe came to Mary from her 
mother, who got it from a sister-in-law 
living in Fairfield, Maine, where it is 
supposed to have originated. It is an 
agreeable change from the varieties of 
plain cake ordinarily found on the every¬ 
day table, and is economical and easily 
made. Mary’s husband calls it glorified 
gingerbread, but though he is not fond 
of gingerbread and never eats it ex¬ 
cept when piping hot from the oven and 
then with a liberal application of butter, 
it is noticeable that whenever Fairfield 
cake appears upon the table he eats his 
share of it cheerfully and without any 
urging. Here is Aunt Hester’s recipe: 
Put one cup of molasses into a cake 
bowl and stir into it two cups of flour 
and a little salt. Put one teaspoonful 
of baking soda into a teacup and fill 
the cup with hot water. Stir water and 
soda immediately into the mixture in 
the bowl, then beat in the yolk of one 
egg and one tablespoonful of melted 
shortening. Add one teaspoonful each 
of ginger, ground cloves and cinnamon. 
Beat all well together. Bake in three 
shallow tins. P'rosting: Boil one cup 
of sugar with four tablespoon fuls of 
water until it threads. Pour it over the 
beaten white of the egg, stirring until 
it is almost cool. Flavor with lemon. 
Put between the layers of cake and on 
the top. 
Mary uses a recipe of her mother’s 
which is fine for those who like caraway 
seed in cake: Beat in a bowl one egg 
lightly, add gradually one cup of granu-. 
lated sugar, beating the mixture all the 
time, then pour in half a cup of milk, 
and before mixing with the sugar and 
egg add 3}4 cups of flour with three 
teaspoonfuls of baking powder sifted 
through it. Stir well, then add half a 
cup of melted butter and one teaspoon¬ 
ful of caraway seed. Stir till fine and 
white, then drop it into a buttered pan 
and pat out evenly with a spoon dipped 
in water. Sprinkle with sugar and bake. 
Cut in squares and keep in a tin recep¬ 
tacle, under lock and key if there are 
children in the family, otherwise you 
won't find any when you want some for 
the supper table, so Mary says. 
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