1912. 
THE RXJRA.L NEW-YORKER 
171 
The Rural Patterns. 
When ordering patterns always give 
number of pattern and measurements 
desired. 
The first group shows No. 7270, blouse 
for misses and small women; No. 7134, 
two-piece skirt for misses and small 
women. The 16-year size will require 
1% yards of material 36 inches wide 
with $4 yard 21 inches wide for the 
blouse; 3j4 yards 36 inches wide with 
1 yard for the panels for the skirt. 
No. 7263, fancy blouse for misses and 
small women, No. 7184, three-piece skirt 
for misses and small women. The 16- 
year size will require 2 yards of material 
36 inches wide with 34 yard 21 for 
trimming, yard of lace for the 
blouse; 3 yards 36 for the skirt. No. 
7247, fancy peasant blouse with tunic 
for misses and small women; No. 6835, 
two-piece skirt for misses and small 
women. The 16-year size requires 3 
yards of material 36 inches wide with 
2 yards of wide banding and 2 yards 
of fringe, % yard of all over lace and 
4)4 yards of lace for the frills for the 
blouse with tunic; 3 yards 36 inches 
wide for the skirt. All the above pat¬ 
terns are cut in sizes for 14, 16 and 
18 years of age. No. 7251, child’s dress 
with bloomers. A simple one-piece dress 
with sleeves sewed to the armholes. The 
opening is cut at the front a little to 
the right of the center and there are 
bloomers to match. The 6-year size re¬ 
quires 2'A yards 36 inches wide for the 
dress, 1)4 yards for the bloomers. The 
pattern is cut in sizes from 4 to 8 years 
of age. No. 7257, child’s dress. A 
pretty little one-piece frock with kimono 
sleeves. The 6-year size requires 3j4 
yards of material 36 inches wide with 
1 yard for the trimming. Price of each 
pattern 10 cents. 
The second group includes No. 7282, 
fancy blouse, sizes 34 to 42 bust. For 
of material 36 inches wide, with 3)4 
yards of banding, 1 yard of all-over 
lace 18 inches wide and 1 yard of lace 
for the frills. No. 7270, blouse with 
front closing for misses and small wom¬ 
en, sizes 14, 16 and 18 years. For the 
16-year size will be required 1^4 yards 
36 inches wide with J4 yard 18 inches 
wide for the chemisette. No. 7089, fancy 
blouse, 34 to 44 bust; No. 7238, four- 
piece skirt, 22 to 30 waist. For the 
medium size the blouse will require 
yards 36 inches wide with J4 yard 18 
inches wide for fancy collar and cuffs, 
7/% yard 18 inches wide for chemisette 
and undersleeves; for the skirt will be 
needed 3)4 yards 36 inches wide, the 
width of skirt at lower edge is 2)4 
yards. No. 7280, two-piece skirt with 
trimming portion, sizes 22 to 30 waist. 
For the medium size the plain skirt 
will require 254 yards 36 inches wide, 
for the trimming portion will be needed 
2K yards 36 inches wide, the width 
of skirt at lower edge is 2% yards. No. 
7283, two-piece skirt for misses and 
small women, 14, 16 and 18 years. For 
the 16-year size will be required 2)4 
yards 36 inches wide, width of skirt at 
lower edge 1 yards. Price of pat¬ 
terns 10 cents each. 
Some Books and Talk. 
A book which a friend of Cousin 
Ellen’s friend had given her was called 
“John Percyfield.” It was a cheerful 
summary of the writer’s personal opin¬ 
ions upon life and morals, all spread 
gracefully along a thread of experiences 
as a European traveler. “You will like 
it because you have been there,” Ellen’s 
friend had told her, and we enjoyed 
hearing read the descriptions of foreign 
scenes and cities and of the sort of life 
a tourist leads* and the people likely to 
be met and talked with. But this about 
truth telling came so close to some re¬ 
cent observations of my own that it 
seemed to demand copying. “The race 
has discovered that progress depends 
upon reporting things exactly as they 
are, and that daily life is more success¬ 
ful when people tell one another the 
exact truth. ... A man owes it to 
himself to clarify his own vision and 
to look at the world as unblinkingly aS 
possible. . . . The worst effect of 
lying is upon one’s self. It takes away 
the very foundations of intellectual life, 
for it robs one of discrimination and 
clear-sightedness.” 
With these lines as text we held a 
symposium upon lying. “Probably you 
have not happened to know much of the 
present fashion, among young people, of 
disregarding facts in their talk, have 
you, Ellen?” I asked. 
“Not among our native-bred, well¬ 
born young people! They do not tell 
lies, do they?” cried Ellen. 
“No, no, Mamma,” Bess struck in. “I 
don’t think any of the boys and girls 
you have in mind would actually tell 
lies, upon important matters, that is. 
they talk for fun and to be agreeable 
and amusing.” Then to Ellen she added, 
“We had a pretty girl here this Summer, 
a peach to look at and really refined 
and of good family, but she used to 
shock mother by the astonishing stories 
she told of things she had seen and 
done. We girls just let her tongue am¬ 
ble all over the bounds of probability 
and paid no attention, since it amused 
her and did no one harm.” 
“But it did. As Ellen just read, its 
worst effect was upon herself, and it 
made her seem coarse and cheap. Only 
the ignorant and those who had few 
ideas of their own resorted to lying to 
be agreeable in any society for which I 
have had respect heretofore. I would 
as lief see one of my children go with 
dirty hands or ragged stockings as to 
hear such disregard for the truth. To 
me there is nothing in the way of talk 
more wearying and disgusting. It 
wastes one’s time, patience and polite¬ 
ness. Why should I sit smiling and 
affecting a belief I do not feel just to let 
an idle tongue gambol about,‘guided by 
a shallow and silly fancy? As Bess 
says, the girl was pretty and otherwise 
very attractive and interesting. But I 
noticed that everyone in the house 
showed a sense of relief when she went 
away, and I believe it was her lies 
which had made us all so tired of her.” 
“Does her mother know? But prob¬ 
ably she does not embroider her con¬ 
versation in that way at home.” 
“Lyman says she rattles on much the 
same there, and her mother laughs and 
says, ‘Oh, my girl will make her way in 
the world.’ But this girl was only one 
of several untruthful young people I 
have met lately. And others have told 
me that many girls have the same habit, 
and half the boys do a lot of ‘gassing.’ 
Of course, there always have been liars 
here and there, as there is sometimes an 
albino or a harelip. But to have the 
weakness fashionable seems fairly piti¬ 
ful, and as if our race were deteriorat¬ 
ing and growing degenerate.” 
“There, there, Mommie! We’ve still 
got George Washington and some shreds 
of the Puritan conscience. And you 
have brought up one family determined 
not to be ‘low down’ though they seem' 
dull as sticks. Let’s talk about some¬ 
thing cheerful,” suggested Pet. 
“But first,” said Cousin Ellen, “let me i 
tell about a lady we met in the White j 
Mountains this Summer. She was evi¬ 
dently much impressed by my friend, 
Arabella, and in many quiet ways sought 
to cultivate her acquaintance. We found 
her agreeable and refined and I fore¬ 
saw that, as they lived in the same city, 
she would probably reap some consider¬ 
able social advantages from knowing a 
woman in Arabella’s position. But she 
lost herself Arabella’s respect in such a 
foolish way. She drove a great deal, 
often taking others with her. One day 
she boasted a little of having given the 
pleasure of a day’s drive to a girl who 
could not otherwise have seen the Flume 
and the Old Man of the Mountains. ‘It 
is expensive, of course,’ she remarked; 
‘now, ten dollars for yesterday’s little 
drive, but I enjoyed it.’ ‘What, does he 
charge ten dollars for a drive of that 
length ?’ Arabella asked and was assured 
that he invariably did. But quite by 
chance we learned that the lady had paid 
scarcely more than half that sum. The 
fact was proven beyond doubt and I 
doubt if Arabella acknowledges more 
than bowing acquaintance when they 
both return home; certainly she will not 
introduce to her friends a woman whose 
word cannot be relied upon. Now, Pet, 
what shall we talk of that is pleasant?” 
“She was a silly!” mused Pet, “and 
not nearly as smart as she thought her¬ 
self.” R. ITHAMAR. 
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