1911. 
020 
The Rural Patterns. 
When ordering patterns always give 
number of patterns and measurements 
desired. 
The first group shows 7042, short 
jacket for misses and small women, 14, 
16 and 18 years. 6885, house jacket, 34 
to 44 bust. 6991, fancy tucked blouse, 
34 to 42. 6936, three or two-piece skirt 
with simulated tunic, 22 to 32 waist. 
6970, nine-gored skirt, 22 to 36 waist, 
with inverted plaits or habit back, with 
high or natural waist line, in walking 
or round length. 7001, girl’s empire 
dress, 2, 4 and 6 years, with round or 
high neck, sleeves plain or gathered 
into bands. Price of each 10 cents. 
The second group includes 7071, 
kimono with yoke for misses and small 
women, 14, 16 and 18 years, perforated 
for sacque length. 7032, peasant 
blouse for misses and small women, 14, 
16 and 18 years, with or without chemi¬ 
sette. 6816, five-gored skirt with cir¬ 
cular flounce, for misses and small 
women, 14, 16 and 18 years. 7091, house 
gown or wrapper, 34 to 44 bust. 7074, 
child’s dress, 4, 6 and 8 years, with 
round or high neck, short or three- 
quarter sleeves. 7084, child’s coat with 
cape, 2, 4 and 6 years. Price of each 
10 cents. 
Canned Beets. 
A short time ago some one asked 
through your columns for a recipe for 
canning beets without vinegar. I gladly 
furnish the following: Cook beets until 
tender enough to skin. Put in cans and 
cover with a syrup made of one quart 
water and one cup sugar. Steam one 
hour. I like best to make sure the beets 
are very clean and use the water I cook 
them in to make the syrup. 
MARY H. MUNSON. 
I saw an inquiry for a recipe for can¬ 
ning beets without pickling them. I have 
a recipe which I have used with success, 
so thought I would send j.t to you. t Boil 
THE RURAL* 
the beets until tender. Peel and slice, 
pack in cans and pour over them boiling 
water sweetened with sugar, using 
about a cupful of sugar to two quarts 
of water. Pour over them while hot 
and seal airtight. When you want to 
use them pour the water off and fix the 
same as you would fresh beets. We 
like them just with sweetened vinegar. 
A SUBSCRIBER. 
Three Eggless Recipes. 
Pumpkin Pie.—Allow one cup of 
cooked pumpkin for each pie, half cup 
of brown sugar, one tablespoonful of 
flour or teaspoonful of cornstarch, one 
scant cup of sweet cream, one-fourth 
teaspoonful of baking powder, and the 
same amount of spice or cinnamon. 
Beat well, bake with one crust. 
Corn Bread.—Mix one scant tea¬ 
spoonful of soda and one of salt and 
just a pinch of sugar with three pints 
of sifted meal. Stir in milk until a 
rather soft batter is formed; beat until 
light, pour in a shallow pan, hot and 
well greased. Bake in a quick oven. 
A Good Fruit Cake.—Cream together 
one cup of sugar and half cup of but¬ 
ter. Add one cup of sour milk, one tea¬ 
spoonful of mixed spices, one level tea¬ 
spoonful of soda and two cups of flour, 
and one cup of chopped raisins rolled 
in flour. Bake in a loaf. d. b. p. 
A Penny Saved. 
An acquaintance of mine is much 
troubled by the wasteful ways of a poor 
neighbor. If the biscuits are not all 
eaten at one meal, the remainder is 
tossed out, not for the hens or pigs, but 
just to be of no use to any person, or 
any animal. This tale reminds me of 
the maxim of my father, who used to 
say, “A penny saved is two pennies 
earned.” When in my girlhood I was 
admonished to scrape out the mixing 
dish well, or not to waste the soap, I 
felt sometimes that it savored of nig¬ 
gardliness, for we were not poor, but I 
have since realized that one way not to 
be poor is to guard against waste, and 
the habit formed in youth has been of 
much benefit. The pennies saved by 
economical habits allow expenditure for 
needed conveniences, and help towards 
a comfortable bank account. 
Sometimes we see a young man whose 
salary is $1,000 or more and who has 
only the beginning of a family, and yet 
he cannot lay by a cent, and is in debt 
to many. What is the trouble? In one 
NEW-YORKER 
such case, large quantities of food were 
taken from the back door by a neighbor 
for his hens. We are told that a man 
must ask his wife if he may be rich, yet 
it may not be wholly the fault of the 
v fe, for some men refuse to eat food 
that is more than 24 hours old, so ex¬ 
tremely careful calculation could not al¬ 
ways prevent waste. 
If you follow the practice of seeing 
how much wear can be gotten from any 
article, it is about as interesting as any 
other hobby, and need not be carried to 
miserliness either. I have a granite 
kettle that my husband has twice 
mended by putting through a hole in it 
a tack which he has cut short and ham¬ 
mered down fast, like a rivet. The 
kettle serves very well, though more 
than 10 years in use, and we have saved 
the price of a new one, for something 
that we want more. One member of 
our family sometimes says, “There! I 
believe I shall not wear that garment 
any more,” so she lays it aside, firm in 
her belief. Frequently it has happened 
that months afterwards she gets out the 
garment and concludes it looks pretty 
well, furbishes it up, puts it on again, 
aand likes it. But in case she cannot 
wear it at her work in the store, we 
may find some “deserving poor” who 
will be glad to use it in her home. We 
always have a box where partly worn 
or outgrown articles are kept, and in 
time they find a place where they are 
still useful. It is a real pleasure to see 
how some women who are poor through 
no fault of their own, will find a use 
for such things. I once gave a door 
curtain, faded, but quite heavy, to a 
woman who earns by hard work nearly 
all that she has. I thought it might keep 
out a draft somewhere, but she knew 
exactly what she wanted to do with it. 
She doubled it and sewed it together, 
and said it would be just the thing to 
put under the robe when in Winter they 
took the long drive to town. It seemed 
to me much better that she should have 
that curtain to use than that it should 
be put in the rag bag or burned. 
With the habit of wastefulness often 
goes the habit of buying the handsome 
thing that takes the eye, but whose price 
exceeds the amount in the purse, or at 
least takes more of it than is wise, when 
a plainer article would serve as well, 
and probably be more appropriate. Self- 
denial may be hard, but it seems pre¬ 
ferable to the feeling that if illness 
comes into the family there is nothing 
with which to meet the bills. e. f. m. 
Good Paint 
Is Not An Expense 
A good paint does a great deal 
more than beautify a building. 
It protects the surface, seasons the 
wood, and hardens and prolongs 
its life. .. 
Paint is not an expense, but an 
investment. Not ah extravagance, 
but a saving, for it lengthens the 
life of buildings. 
This is not a theory, but a 
proved fact. 
Moore’s House Colors 
are the best paints to 
use—and the most 
economical. 
Moore’s 
House 
Colors 
(Sill 
These 
paints are 
made bypaint- 
makers who have 
no superiors in the 
world. The linseed oil 
in Moore’s Paints is pure. It 
is chemically tested. When the 
price of linseed oil is high, 
adulteration is prevalent, and the 
individual purchaser (who is not 
able to subject the raw material to 
chemical test) isapttobe “stung.” 
Moore’s Paints and Varnishes for 
every purpose. 
MURESCO. We also make Mu- 
resco, for wall and ceiling decora¬ 
tion. Send for literature describ¬ 
ing Muresco. 
BENJAMIN MOORE & CO. 
Brooklyn, N.Y. Chicago, 111. 
Cleveland, O. 
Carteret, N. J. 
Toronto, Can. 
WELL 
DRILLING 
MACHINES 
Over 70 sizes and styles, for drilling either deep or 
shallow wells in any kind of soil or rock. Mounted on 
wheels or on sills. With engines or horse powers. Strong, 
simple and durable. Any mechanic can operate them 
easily. Send for catalog. 
WILLIAMS BROS.. Ithaca. N. Y. 
ft 
FUMA 
55 kills Prairie Dogs, 
Woodchucks, Gophers, 
and Grain Insects. 
"The wheels of the gods 
grind slow but exceed¬ 
ingly small." So the weevil, bnt yon can stop their 
^with “ Fuma Carbon Bisulphide are doing, 
EDWARD R. TAYLOR, Penn Ian, N. Y. 
This House Was Struck by 
LIGHTNING 
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Keepsakes and treasures gone ! Old 
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