ID LI. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
807 
The Rural Patterns. 
When ordering patterns always give 
number of patterns and measurements 
desired. 
The first group shows 6960, shirt 
waist, 34 to 42 bust measure. 2$4 yards 
of material 21 inches wide, yard 36 
or 44 inches wide for the side and 
pointed portions, 1 % yard 18 inches 
wide for the center portions, Y% yard 
18 for the yoke and under sleeves, and 
3 A yard 20 inches for the trimming 
bands, for medium size. 6948, tucked 
blouse for misses and small women, 14, 
16 and 18 years. 2*4 yards of material 
27 inches wide, 1 l / 2 yard 36. 1% yard 44 
for l louse, H yard 27 for trimming, 1 % 
yard 36 inches wide with Y\ yard of 
all-over lace for guimpe, for 16 year 
size. 6882, house gown for misses and 
small women, 14, 16 and 18 years. 5-54 
yards of material 27 inches wide, 4'4 
yards 36, 3}4 3 'ards of material 44 
inches wide, y 2 yard of silk for bands, 
for 16 year size. 6836, plaited tunic 
skirt, 22 to 30 waist. 9j4 yards of ma¬ 
terial 24 or 27 inches wide, 7j4 yards 
36, SY yards 44, with 1^ yards 36 
inches wide for foundation, 2 yards 27 
for bands, width of skirt at lower edge 
4 yards, 2 yards when plaited, for me¬ 
dium size. 6950, girl’s princess dress, 
to be slipped over the head, 4, 6 and 8 
years. 2J4 yards of material 27 inches 
wide, 2 yards 36 or 44, for 6 year size. 
Price of each 10 cents. 
The second group pictures 6941, cor¬ 
set cover with straight upper edge, 34 
to 44 bust. 7011, combination corset 
cover and five-gored petticoat, 34 to 42 
bust. 7105, fancy yoke night-gown, 
small 34 or 36, medium 38 or 40, large 
42 or 44. 7103, child's coat.6 months, 
1, 2 and 4 years. 7120, two-piece corset 
cover for misses and small women, 14, 
16 and 18 years. Price of each pattern 
10 cents. 
The opportunity of making happy is 
more scarce than we imagine; the pun¬ 
ishment of missing it is, never to meet 
with it again; and the use we make of 
it leaves us an eternal sentiment of sa¬ 
tisfaction or repentance.—Rousseau. 
Some Homemade Troches. 
Some lime ago The R. N.-Y. gave direc¬ 
tions for making several sorts of cough 
candies. As one member of our family 
feels that she must always have a package 
of slippery elm lozenges by her, I bought 
an ounce of powdered slippery elm, and 
tried making some cough drops. I 
wished to make them less sweet than 
the recipe would give, so followed some 
plan of my own, as the writer suggested 
one might do. Whatever else 1 used 
my mixture included the lemon juice 
which the recipe said some palates 
might like. The flavor was not accept¬ 
able to us, and my candies remained 
gummy from being rolled in pulverized 
sugar. So they were thrown away, and 
we continued to try the ready-made 
lozenges. 
This year, when the cough season 
came again upon us, I remembered the 
recipe for balsam candy, and got, for a 
few cents, some oil of tar at the druggists. 
There was still plenty of the powdered 
slippery elm, so I beat the white of a 
small egg light and whipped six drops 
of oil of tar evenly through it. “Albumen 
is healing and I shall get the tar dis¬ 
tributed all through my candy in this 
way,” was my thought. Two even table¬ 
spoonfuls of confectioner's, sugar were 
then beaten in, and finally as much of 
the powdered slippery elm as it would 
carry. To be explicit, I put in so much 
that a crumbly mixture resulted, and 
going to the medicine cupboard for help, 
I found only the paregoric bottle offer¬ 
ing suitable material for thinning my 
paste so that it could be emptied upon a 
sugared board and patted and shaped 
into small lozenges. The article referred 
to remarks that “the important point in 
all cough candies is to have them hard 
enough to dissolve slowly when held in 
the mouth.” This all can appreciate, 
and judged by its standard my “drops” 
are perfection, being as tenacious in sub¬ 
stance as an old-fashioned gumdrop. 
They are not disagreeable in taste, and 
they “take hold” of an inflamed mucous 
membrane in a most satisfactory way. 
Not being very sweet, they are not dis¬ 
turbing to a weak digestion, but rather 
soothing to the stomach, though if too 
much of the tar be used they might 
nauseate. 
Tncouraged by my success and find¬ 
ing this form of troche very little work, 
I intend elaborating them somewhat 
when next I prepare any. I will get 
some oil of anise for flavoring and add, 
also, a little cubeb, either as oil or in 
the pulverized form, and leave out the 
paregoric, as containing drugs dangerous 
if used too freely. It might be well to 
have some powdered licorice root with 
which to sprinkle the board on which 
the mixture is rolled out. Perhaps with 
practice I shall learn to make a dough 
that will roll thin and which can be cut 
into lozenges with a thimble. 
Very old people are apt to be troubled 
with a constant craving for “something 
to hold in the mouth,” and I intend mak¬ 
ing some of these troches flavored 
pleasantly with anise and without the 
oil of tar. It is usually a puzzle what to 
carry to the dear old "grandmas” we 
make a point of paying frequent calls to. 
and perhaps I shall hit upon just the 
trifling but inexpensive gift that will 
please some patient soul and give her 
comforting assurance of my thought for 
her. PATTIE LYMAN. 
Destroying Flies. 
I was interested in the request for 
help to rid her house of flies by Mrs. 
G. S., on page 824. I live on a small 
farm and have driven flies and used 
sticky fly paper for years, only to have 
them, apparently, as thick as ever in a 
few hours. Reading an article in the 
Youth’s Companion for April 6, 1911, I 
decided to try these traps. We have no 
"garbage heaps” or open cesspools, have 
the house well screened, but no dark 
rooms, a large family and doors flying 
all the time. We have kept a bucket 
in the “back room” in which are placed 
scraps from the kitchen for the poultry. 
This bucket was placed out of doors be¬ 
side the steps in a sunny location with 
a few scraps, a little sour milk and 
bread crumbs, perhaps, in it, and the 
remainder placed in a dean pail inside 
and emptied every day. Over the pail 
outside we placed a heavy pasteboard 
cover with a small hole in the e nter. 
If the contents are a little stale all the 
better. Over this hole we placed the 
trap. By night this trap was full of 
flies. It was taken off and hot water 
pour over it. After several weeks of 
this we found ourselves practically with¬ 
out flies; no more “driving” and no 
sticky fly paper. The stable is located 
about 50 feet from the house where one 
horse and one cow are kept, and no 
precautions whatever are taken there. 
We used a ware fly killer in the house 
freely. The past week of cool weather 
has failed to have the house “swarming 
with flies” as has always been the case, 
so we think we have discovered a way 
to keep our house free from the pest. 
E. M. A. 
Beef Loaf.—Two pounds of lean beef, 
chopped very fine, one cupful of bread 
crumbs, two teaspoonfuls salt, half a tea¬ 
spoonful of white pepper, a dash of cay¬ 
enne, two eggs and a half a teaspoon ful 
of onion juice. Mix thoroughly, form 
into a loaf and roll in sifted flour. To a 
cupful of boiling water add a t ible- 
spoonful of butter; put in the buttered 
baking pan, add the meat, bake in a hot 
oven about 45 minutes, basting fre- 1 
queutly. Place loaf in a hot dish, thicken 
the drippings in pan, adding more water 
or stock if needed. Pour sauce around 
meat, with a teaspoonful of minced pars¬ 
in'. 
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