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The Rural Patterns. 
When ordering patterns always give 
number of pattern and measurement de¬ 
sired. 
The first group shows 7142, tucked 
blouse or shirt waist, 34 to 44 bust. For 
the medium size will be required 224 
vards of material 36 inches wide, with 
Fa yard of ruffing, 3 yards of edging. 
7148, fancy tucked blouse, 34 to 40 
bust, with high or low neck, with or 
without undersleeves. For the medium 
size will be required 124 yard of ma¬ 
terial 36 inches wide, with 24 yard all- 
over lace 27 inches wide for yoke and 
cuffs, 24 yard 18 inches wide for collar 
and undersleeves, 24 yard plaiting. 
7212, semi-princess gown, 34 to 44 bust. 
For the medium size will be required 
8 y 2 yards of material 36 inches wide. 
with V /2 yard 27 inches wide for collar 
and frills to make as shown. 7182, 
three-piece skirt, 22 to 30 waist, with 
straight band at lower edge with high 
or natural waist line. For the medium 
size will be required 3^4 yards of ma¬ 
terial 36 inches wide, with J4 yard 21 
inches wide for panels. 7138, four- 
gored skirt, 22 to 32 waist, with or with¬ 
out panels, with high or natural waist 
line. For the medium size will be re¬ 
quired 434 yards of material 27 or 36 
inches wide when material has figure or 
nap, 3j4 yards 36 inches wide when ma¬ 
terial has neither figure or nap, 1% yard 
of material any width for panels. 
The second picture includes 6731 
men’s jumper coat or blouse, 36 to 46 
breast, with or without band at lower 
edge, with rolled-over or standing col¬ 
lar, or with *collarless neck. For the 
medium size will be required 324 yards 
of material 36 inches wide. 6861, men’s 
house coat, 34 to 44 breast. For the 
medium size will be required 4J4 yards 
of material 27 inches wide, with 7 yards 
of cord for trimming. 5739, men’s pa¬ 
jamas, 34 to 44 breast. For the medium 
size will be required 5 yards of material 
36 inches wide. 6867, men’s lounging 
or bath robe, 34 to 46 breast. For the 
medium size will be required 7 yards of 
material 27 inches wide, 3 yards of cord 
for trimming. 6203, men’s nightshirt, 
34 to 44 breast. For the medium size 
will be required 4J4 yards of material 
36 inches wide. Price of each pattern 
10 cents. 
A Backward-Spring Reflection. 
They used to make disparaging re¬ 
marks at home about my erring sense 
of what was proper and befitting on cer¬ 
tain occasions. It was when Winter, 
cold and white, held us in his tightest 
grasp that it pleased me to declaim— 
with telling effect: 
“I hear the wild bee wind his horn. 
The bird swings on the ripened wheat. 
The long green lances of the corn 
Are tilting in the winds of morn, 
The locust shrills his song of heat.” 
The words came whimsically to my 
mind again the other day, accompany¬ 
ing the first stirrings of early Spring 
ambition. Here it is March and only 
a few degrees above zero yet! Nothing 
outside but shivery Winter days with 
a look and feel about them as of their 
having outlived all usefulness—no stir 
of sap, no note of bird, no fresh pro¬ 
phetic smell in the air—absolutely noth¬ 
ing in all this worn-out Winter land¬ 
scape to encourage such apparently in¬ 
appropriate things as house-cleaning and 
gardening aspirations, yet here they are, 
strong and not to be ignored. 
Our Grange is going to discuss among 
other topics next week, “The Joys and 
Sorrows of House-cleaning.” Those 
who are in fortunate possession of vac¬ 
uum cleaners will not be the only ones 
to speak on the side of the joys either. 
I wonder what happy surprise will mark 
this year’s attempts to do much with 
little, in the line of improvements. Last 
year it was the kitchen windows. They 
had been an eyesore for a long time, 
with their dilapidated sashes and their 
small panes of cracked, poor and paint- 
bedaubed glass. A screen about a foot 
high had been nailed across the bottom 
of one of them. The other one, appar¬ 
ently, had never been opened. For two 
years we had endured them, the first 
year because of the many and pressing 
demands incident to our beginning life 
upon an old and worn-out farm, the 
second year because of the equally press¬ 
ing demands of the first baby. But the 
next Summer—ah, then, how joyfully 
and purposefully did I assault those 
windows! The little old screen was 
knocked off, the sashes torn from their 
ancient stronghold. Now began the sur¬ 
prise, for there was, as it were, a sud¬ 
den inpouring of the glad, bright day 
into my heretofore somewhat gloomy 
kitchen. With a long breath of delight¬ 
ed appreciation, I noted the effect, 
wished I could keep it, and then to 
work again! I tacked wire screening 
over the outside of both casings, and 
having washed the windows, left them 
leaning against the wall for awhile, 
loath to shut myself in again. No need 
to do so until night—I would enjoy the 
openness and airiness the rest of the 
day—-and the master of the house must 
be given the opportunity to see it as I 
did, too. 
But not that day, nor the next, were 
they put in place, and after awhile they 
were carried off to a safe retreat—not 
far off, of course, and in careful order, 
so that they could be quickly put in 
place in an emergency—and only once 
in all that Summer and until days grew 
cold in the Fall were they brought forth 
and restored to their rightful function. 
There were some rains from the north, 
to be sure, that wet my floor and win¬ 
dow-sills, but there was nothing on 
floor or window-sill to be injured by 
wetting, and what hours were those 
now—the ones that had to be spent in 
the kitchen! Was I really in the kitch¬ 
en, or was I out yonder 
“with the riotous weft and yield 
Of a royal will and a fortunate day and 
the swing of a lavish hand?” 
It seemed as though outdoors had come 
in to me, flower-garden, far view across 
the fields, and all. 
Several of these Winter evenings we 
have surrounded ourselves with seed 
catalogues, holding deep and earnest 
consultation over them, and it is our 
garden of the future, rather than of the 
past, that we are seeing now. However, 
I like to point out to any audience that 
I can gather, the most prominent feature 
of our back yard for the last two Sum¬ 
mers. The garden was not fenced in, 
but I transplanted Summer flowering 
Cosmos—some one had given me a 
packet of mixed pink and white—so that 
it made a low hedge, becoming finally 
about three feet high, around all four 
sides and bordering a path down the 
middle. If I could only make you see 
it after it began to bloom ’ Even be¬ 
fore it bloomed it was very pretty with 
its feathery foliage. The good points 
of the Summer-flowering Cosmos are 
many. It begins to bloom early in the 
Summer and continues profusely until 
frost. It is very easily transplanted 
and will grow well through a dry sea¬ 
son without water, and with almost no 
care. It sows itself and comes up the 
second year most lavishly—indeed, un¬ 
der certain conditions I can see that this 
might become a nuisance. One other 
caution should be given. Ours showed i 
a disposition the second year to revert 
to the original type, beginning to bloom 
later, growing taller and woodier, and 
branching in a disturbing fashion. For 
this reason I should prefer to start 
with new seed at least every third year. 
The flowers are as beautiful in the 
house as they are in masses in the gar¬ 
den, which is saying much. Cut them 
with long stems and put them, like 
others of their kind, loosely, and not 
too many together, in tall vases. 
The garden is to be fenced in this 
Summer and planted with a first install¬ 
ment of hardy perennials, according to 
a long-cherished plan, the fulfillment of 
which we hope may be a delight to gen-' 
erations yet to come. In the new order 
of things the Summer-flowering Cosmos 
will probably not be especially prom¬ 
inent, but we shall never forget those 
masses of delicate pink and white, and 
how often in that direction we turned 
tired eyes and minds from kitchen win¬ 
dow or back porch or path leading to 
the barn and fields, and found unexpect¬ 
ed and needful refreshment. H. b. t. 
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one teaspoon of onion extract, and a 
shake of white pepper. Pour this into 
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egg-beater. This will be delicious if 
directions are followed closely, and is 
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The Pony Express 
A Pioneer of the Bell System 
pTFTY years ago the Pony 
* Express became the most 
efficient messenger service 
ever known. 
Pony riders carried mes¬ 
sages from Missouri to Cali¬ 
fornia, nearly two thousand 
miles across mountains and 
deserts, through blizzards and 
sand storms, constantly in 
danger of attack by hostile 
Indians. 
Fresh horses were supplied 
at short intervals, and the 
messages, relayed from rider 
to rider, were delivered in the 
record-breaking time of seven 
and one-half days. 
Railroad and telegraph took 
the place of the Pony Express, 
carrying messages across this 
western territory. Today the 
telephone lines of the Bell 
System have done more, for 
they have bound together 
ranch and mine and camp 
and village. 
This network of telephone 
lines, following the trails of the 
Indians, connects with the 
telegraph to carry messages 
throughout the world. 
By means of Universal Bell 
Service the most remote settler 
is no longer isolated, but has 
become a constantly informed 
citizen of the American Com¬ 
monwealth. 
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And Associated Companies 
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