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'1'1-i iC KUKAL N EJ W - Y O HKEH 
The Rural Patterns. 
When ordering patterns ahvays give 
number of patterns and measurements 
desired. 
The first group shows 7260. Girl’s 
dress, sizes 10 to 14 years. For the 12 
year size will he required 4)4 yards 36 
inches wide with )4 yards 21 inches wide 
for the trimming. 7279. Girl’s dress, 
sizes 8 to 12 years. For the 10 year size 
will be required 4)4 yards 27 inches 
wide, or 3 yards 36 inches wide. 7272. 
Semi-princess dress for misses and small 
women, 14, 16 and 18 years. For the 
16 year size will be required 3)4 yards 36 
inches wide with 1)4 yards 27 inches 
wide for the foundation and trimming, 
)4 yard 18 inches wide for collar. 7276. 
Girl’s dress with front closing, 8 to 12 
years. For the 10 year size will be re¬ 
quired 3% yards 36 inches wide. 7285. 
Child’s pointed yoke dress, 6 months, 1, 
2 and 4 years. For the 2 year size will 
be required 2)4 yards 36 inches wide 
with 1 yard of edging to trim as shown 
in the front view, )4 yard 18 inches wide 
to make as shown in the back view. 
Price of patterns 10 cents each. 
In the second group, the waist. No. 
6971, and the skirt, No. 7224, are cut in 
sizes for misses of 14, 16 and 18 years 
of age. For the 16 year size the waist 
will require )4 yard 36 inches wide with 
1?4 yards of all-over lace 18 inches wide; 
for the skirt will lie needed 4)4 yards 
36 inches wide. The pattern, No. 7229, 
is cut in sizes for girls from 8 to 12 
years of age. For the 10 year size will 
be required 3 yards 36 inches wide with 
'A yard of 18 inches wide for the chemi¬ 
sette to make as shown in the front view; 
to make as shown in the back view will 
be needed 5/ yards of lace 4 inches 
wide, 3 yards 6 inches wide and 8)4 
yards of insertion. The narrow circular 
skirt, No. 7253, is cut in sizes from 22 
to 30 inch waist. For the medium size 
will be required 3-54 yards 36 inches wide 
with 10 yards of fringe. The coat, No. 
7214, is cut in sizes from 34 to 44 bust, 
the skirt, No. 7166, in sizes from 22 to 
30 waist. For the medium size the coat 
will require 5)4 yards of material 27 
inches wide with 1)4 yards of velvet for 
the collar; for the skirt will be needed 
6)4 yards 27 inches wide. The double- 
breasted reefer coat, No. 7208, is cut in 
sizes for boys from 2 to 6 years of age. 
For the 4 year size will be required 3)4 
yards of material 27 inches wide. Price 
of each pattern 10 cents. 
Another Dumb Waiter. 
On page 1100 the plan for a dumb 
waiter is asked for. About 16 years ago 
I put one in below our kitchen floor, 
and it has been in use ever since without 
costing a cent. The shelves in ours are 
12x24 inches, and we use four of them, 
though several more could be put in. 
I began by cutting out a piece of the 
floor the desired size and position, hold¬ 
ing the saw at an angle of about 30 
degrees, so that the piece cut out could 
be fastened on top of the dumb waiter. 
I tacked on all round a strip of leather 
to make up for the thickness of the saw 
cut, so that the piece would be level 
with the floor, when down. The waiter 
itself has sides of inch stuff a foot wide, 
eight feet long, with cleats nailed on 
for the shelves to rest upon. The 
shelves need to be firmly nailed so as 
to give stiffness. 
The waiter is supported by cotton 
ropes, which run over a wooden pulley 
on both sides. The pulleys arc about 
eight inches in diameter, with a groove 
worked out by hand on the edge of a 
piece of inch oak board, with an iron 
bush driven into the center to prevent 
wearing. Pulleys work in a wooden 
fork fastened to the joists of floor. 
Hopes are knotted through holes about 
three feet from lower end of side 
pieces of waiter, and have boxes of 
stone to balance at other end. A frame 
of narrow pieces for waiter to slide in, 
two at each corner, is all that is needed. 
Waiter can be balanced with an average 
load in it, and it will stay in place with 
a little care more or less just with the 
friction. A back of thin lumber, a door i 
if desired in front, and a sunken handle 
in the floor completes it. j. r. j. 
Social Life on the Farm. 
The social side of farm life is gen¬ 
erally ignored, or misrepresented in 
many of our papers. ITow often we see 
articles on this subject telling how hard 
the life of the farmer’s wife is! It 
seems to me the woman fitted to be a 
farmer’s wife and helpmate will find a 
way out of all this. We have in our 
community an average lot of farm peo¬ 
ple. Some time ago we decided to or¬ 
ganize an improvement club. This club 
has two parts, an evening meeting held 
once a month in which we all join, and 
an afternoon meeting held once a month 
which the ladies attend, the object of' 
the club being to improve ourselves and 
the community in every way we can. 
We have a president, vice-president, sec¬ 
retary and treasurer, refreshment com¬ 
mittee, also a committee on entertain¬ 
ment. It is the refreshment committee’s 
duty to see that the evening lunch is 
well planned; for instance one evening, 
being farmers and blessed with excel¬ 
lent appetitics, we have sandwiches, 
pickles, salads, doughnuts, fruit cookies 
and coffee, with generous pitchers of 
country cream, and finished off with 
oranges. The hostess is not to furnish 
anything but coffee, so she is not bur¬ 
dened. Then the committee on enter¬ 
tainment furnishes a subject on which 
we all take part in discussing, such as 
good roads, parcels post and other sub¬ 
jects of interest and value to farmers. 
Our evenings arc usually concluded by 
some game, such as finding hidden 
names of authors and other things that 
are a benefit to us as well as highly 
amusing. At our last meeting we 
packed two generous barrels for a dea¬ 
coness home. There are about 40 mem¬ 
bers, and I do not believe there is one 
among them that would willingly give 
up farm life. Our next meeting is an 
oyster supper given by the men without 
any assistance of the ladies. At this 
meeting we discuss naming our streets 
and erecting cement post guide boards 
at the corners. 
It seems to me much of the dissatis¬ 
faction with farm life is due to the fact 
that we are not fitted for such a life. 
For instance, if a farmer should go to 
the city and after watching the work 
in one of the big department stores 
should decide that he could make dollars 
where he now makes cents and try it, 
lie would probably make a flat failure. 
Yet people from the city expect to take 
up farming without experience, and then 
blame farming when they fail. 
1 here is another side of farming that 
appeals strongly to me, that of the hus¬ 
band and father being constantly at 
home. Some time ago I had a friend 
from the city visiting me and she would 
often say, “How nice it is to have your 
husband at tsieals with you.” Now her 
husband goes away before the children 
are up, and it is nearly bedtime when he 
gets back. Although his salary is double 
ours, I would not like to exchange 
places with her. I often feel there is no 
life where the father and mother have 
greater privileges of really knowing their 
children than they do on the farm. 
Sometime ago as I sat writing at my 
desk I heard my little boy, nine years 
old, chattering away with his father. 
They were installing an acetylene gas 
plant to light the house, and had a set 
of plumber’s tools to work with. As they 
worked the little lad said, “It is a good 
thing you got those tools, papa; we can 
do this work and save enough to buy 
the tools.” The little lad and his father 
are chums; they talk things over to¬ 
gether. This is one of the greatest of 
farm blessings. We can, if we will, 
know our children. mrs. t. l. 
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