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THE RURAb NEW-YORKER 
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The Rural Patterns. 
When ordering patterns always give 
number of pattern and measurement de¬ 
sired. 
The first group shows 7335, over waist 
or jumper, 34 to 42 bust, with high or 
natural waist line, with or without pep- 
lum. For the medium size will be re¬ 
quired iy& yard of material 36 inches 
wide, yard 27 inches wide for piping. 
7338, surplice fichu blouse, 34 to 40 bust. 
For the medium size will be required 
2 l /% yards of material 36 inches wide, 44 
yard of material 21 inches wide for col¬ 
lar revers .and cuffs, 44 yard for band. 
7340, semi-princess gown, 34 to 42 bust. 
For the medium size will be required 
5^4 yards of material 36 inches wide, 1 
yard 27 inches wide for trimming. 7331, 
girl’s empire coat, 8 to 12 years. For 
the 10 year size will be required 3^4 
yards of material 36 inches wide, §4 
yard 21 inches wide for collar and cuffs. 
7342, girl’s dress, 4 to 8 years. With 
body and sleeves in one, with or with¬ 
out revers and cuffs. For the 6 year 
size will be required 244 yards of ma¬ 
terial 36 inches wide, 44 yard 27 inches 
wide for trimming. Price of each pat¬ 
tern 10 cents. 
The second group includes 7334, coat 
with broad collar that can be made 
pointed or round at the back, 34 to 44 
bust. For the medium size will be re¬ 
quired 5 yards of material 36 inches 
wide, with 1 yard 27 inches wide for 
collar and trimming. 7333, plain blouse 
or shirt waist, 34 to 42 bust. For the 
medium size will be required 2 yards of 
material 36 inches wide. 7319, girl’s 
blouse dress closing at shoulder, 8 to 12 
years. For the 10 year size will be re¬ 
quired 5 yards of material 36 inches 
wide with 2j4 yards of banding. 7327, 
seven-gored skirt, 26 to 36 waist, with 
high or natural waist line, with inverted 
plaits or habit back. For the medium 
size will be required 5 yards of material 
36 inches wide when material has figure 
or nap; 5 yards 36 inches wide when 
material has neither figure nor nap. 
7123, two-piece skirt, 22 to 30 waist, with 
high or natural waist line. For the 
medium size will be required 244 yards 
of material 36 inches wide. Price of 
each pattern 10 cents. 
Taking Scorch Out of Lard. 
I would like to ask whether any of the 
readers of The It. N.-Y. know of any way 
to take the scorch out of lard which is not 
very bad, but disagreeable to use. 
MRS. a. m. w. 
This is beyond us, and we would like 
advice. What have our readers to say 
about denaturing scorched lard? 
Lessening the Fly Nuisance. 
Early in April and often during the 
latter part of March we begin to make 
war on the housefly by preparing to 
starve him out around our premises. If 
a heavy, damp clinging snow falls late 
in March the back and side lawns are 
sprinkled with grass seed, and the snow 
protects the seed until it can sink down 
into the soft sod and well-rotted manure 
applied the Fall before. In this way the 
worn places are renewed, and the young 
plants absorb all the filth and decayed 
animal matter that may have accumu¬ 
lated in Winter. The house dog is apt 
to drag bones over the lawn on fine 
days, and the chickens to wander from 
their quarters because gates are not 
tightly closed as in Summer, but the 
easy-going ways are corrected early in 
the season. The screens are put up be¬ 
fore there is a suspicion of a fly, and 
this is for two reasons. In the first 
place the “men folks” have time to re¬ 
pair the screens and adjust them per¬ 
fectly, and in the second place an ounce 
of prevention is worth many pounds 
of cure. Not all of the bedroom win¬ 
dows are screened in early Summer, as 
we prefer a good draft of air on hot 
nights, but the doors to those rooms are 
kept religiously closed when the win¬ 
dows are open, and nothing in the way 
of food or drink is ever left in them to 
tempt the pests. 
The drain is carefully cleansed and 
Pea Coal. 
In reply to the inquiry on page 170, 
the writer of this has much pleasure 
in testifying to the advantages of pea- 
coal. In the Fall, a neighbor who is 
an old and experienced housekeeper, 
asked me if I had any difficulty with 
stoves, and on my replying in the af¬ 
firmative she advised me to do as she 
had done for some years—buy only pea- 
coal, saying the only question was 
whether the grate of our stove was so 
open as to let the small coal through. 
I bought 100 pounds first to test it and 
found it burnt admirably ;the begin¬ 
ning of November we bought a ton 
which lasted three months. It is a ver¬ 
itable godsend on a cold morning, as 
it burns up so quickly. The stove used 
is a four-hole laundry stove which 
heats the room well, and all the food 
which is not baked can be cooked on it 
for a small family' an oil stove is used 
for baking. At night the grate is shak¬ 
en till the stove is fairly free from 
ashes and clinkers, and coal enough put 
on to completely cover the red coal, 
stove and chimney damper closed and 
two lids lifted slightly. These details 
will probably need regulating according 
to whether the chimney draws well or 
not. There should be a fairly thick 
layer of red coal before making up for 
the night, but we never fill the fire-box 
right up to the top. Stoves and chim¬ 
neys are variable things and perhaps no 
one kind of coal would suit all, but in 
our conditions I should never again 
think of buying anything but pea-coal 
for economy and comfort. It is $5 a 
ton here, chestnut $7. a. e. f. 
Split Pea Soup.—Soak a quart of; 
split peas over night in a large kettle. 
Pour off the water and rinse; cover 
with three pints of water and put on 
the fire with a spoonful each of salt 
and sugar and two cloves of garlic. If 
you have a ham bone or a chicken bone 
to put in so much the better. Let the 
soup simmer for several hours on the 
back of the stove. Then add one or 
two cups of milk, a bit of butter and a 
dash of black pepper and it is ready to 
serve. 
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scalded and then a board is fitted over 
the top. Filthy drains draw flies in 
large numbers and furnish convenient 
feeding and breeding places. At least 
once a week they are scrubbed and 
scalded and all the wash water is poured 
down them that is not needed for water¬ 
ing plants and vines. The surplus rain 
water assists in the cleansing, and often 
pails of hot water strong with lye are 
used in the bowl and drain. 
The chickens and dog must be fed 
far from the house and no crumbs are 
ever swept into the yard. Just look at 
a crumb dropped from the baby’s “piece” 
some day and count the flies clustering 
about the bread and jam, though it be 
but a crumb. If anybody wants to eat 
anything it is necessary to sit down and 
not scatter crumbs, cores, parings and 
other refuse. Such things must be kept 
out of the reach of flies. This is a rigid 
rule and a very necessary one in fighting 
flies, as we have found out. 
Then we carefully take the milk into 
the house night and morning and use 
the separator behind screens, emptying 
the refuse milk at once into the troughs 
for the pigs. Long ago we banished the 
slop pail from our premises. Very wet 
refuse is worth nothing more to grow¬ 
ing pigs than the carefully saved scraps 
from the kitchen without great quantities 
of water, and for little chicks the sloppy 
food is often fatal. We save every 
scrap—the best for the chickens and the 
rest for the pigs—but we drain the water 
off and we do not set it outside the 
screen as formerly. Instead it is stored j 
in a neat pail or dish in the kitchen and 
that dish is cleansed as carefully and as 
regularly as the milk pail. There was a 
time when potato parings, gallons of 
water, table scraps, bones and other 
things from the kitchen went into the 
same receptacle, and that refuse fed in¬ 
numerable flies, but now it is safe until 
it goes to the chickens and pigs, and it 
goes at the earliest possible moment. 
Of course we have flies, for people 
will hold open the screens, and they will 
hatch out in the house in spite of all 
precautions, but we don’t have many. 
And the few we do have lead a bard 
life until they are captured. Wc enjoy 
clean meals and freedom from the pests 
when we want to take a nap, and we 
feel that more of this freedom is due 
to the early Spring work than to any¬ 
thing that comes later. 
HILDA RICHMOND. 
A husband thanks Anty Drudge 
Mrs. H.—“John, allow me to introduce you to Anty 
Drudge. She came out from the city to tell us women 
about that wonderful Fels-Naptha Soap we saw ad¬ 
vertised. I am going to use it Monday, and you won’t 
have to get Sally to help me, because I’ll be through 
washing early and can do the work myself.” 
Farmer Harvester —“Anty Drudge, I want to thank you 
for myself, as well as for my wife, for making her 
work easier for her. It makes me so much happier 
when she doesn’t have to work so hard.” 
Anty Drudge —“That is my aim in life—to help tired 
women—and with the aid of Fels-Naptha Soap I’m 
making a success of it.” 
Use new methods in your work as your 
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Instead of boiling the wash, you use 
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labor with a washing machine, Fels-Naptha 
Soap dissolves the dirt without harm to 
the clothes. Light rubbing on the wash¬ 
board or in the machine releases the dirt. 
Millions of city women know this, 
and now we want the country folks to try 
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